Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1992, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 201845 SVRMOB ALC099-201930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 145 PM CDT MON APR 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 135 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY OVER THE ALABAMA RIVER NEAR CHRYSLER. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY THE PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF MEGARGEL...FRISCO CITY AND MONROEVILLE SHOULD BE ALERT TO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN I NTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 9:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-201515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 910 AM CDT MON APR 20 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 158 CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 905 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDI9CATING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI SOUTHWARD TO LAUREL AND PICAYUNE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR PICAYUNE IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY AND EXTENDED INTO SECTIONS OF HANCOCK COUNTY MS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT STONE AND HARRISON COUNTIES OF MS THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SrTAY APPRISED OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS MORNING AS SEVERE WEATHER IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY FOR OUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 10:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-201630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1035 AM CDT MON APR 20 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 158 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 1025 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SECTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY MS. REPORTS COMING INTO THIS OFFICE FROM WIGGINS POLICE OF STONE COUNTY WERE OF INTENSE RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THESE STORMS MOVED OVER THEIR AREA. THIS LINE OF STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH WITH THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO GREENE...GEORGE AND SECTIONS OF JACKSON COUNTIES OF MS WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SRTAY APPRISED OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 11:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-201715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1116 AM CDT MON APR 20 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 158 CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MARCH ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THI MORNING. AT 1110 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL GREENE...NORTHERN GEORGE...AND NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES OF MS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED JUST WEST OF LEAKESVILLE IN GREENE COUNTY...JUST WEST OF LUCEDALE IN GEORGE COUNTY AND BETWEEN DANTZLER AND VESTRY IN NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY MS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO WASHINGTON AND MOBILE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE SThORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 1:37 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 130 PM CDT MON APR 20 1992 AT 130 PM CDT...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...STRETCHED FROM CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTH THROUGH BALDWIN COUNTY AND CONTINUED OUT INTO THE GULF 100 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE BEGINNING TO ENTER WEST ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AT THIS TIME. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL AND TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD STAY ADVISED OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON BY MONITORING THIS SOURCE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
Local storm report, Apr 20, 1:44 PM CDT, 1 minute before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
137 PM MON APR 20 1992
TIME EVENT
128 PM TORNADO REPORTED AT CARLTON IN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA.
TREES DOWN...VEHICLES DAMAGED...
INFORMATION SKETCHY AT THIS TIME...
140 PM TREES DOWN REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF FAIRHOPE ALABAMA
IN BALDWIN COUNTY. REPORTED AS TORNADO BUT
UNCONFIRMED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 66 min |
| Apr 20, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Lowndes, Montgomery | 69 min |
| Apr 20, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 69 min |
| Apr 20, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 69 min |
| Apr 20, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Apr 20, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee, Macon | 59 min |
| Apr 20, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.