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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

April 20, 1992Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1992, 2:08 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 1992, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
208 PM CDT MON APR 20 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WILCOX COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN WILCOX COUNTY BETWEEN YELLOW BLUFF AND CAMDEN AND
ALSO MOVING INTO WILCOX COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST BETWEEN BELLVIEW AND
MCWILLIAMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
,SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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 57 minutes before

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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 34 minutes before

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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 52 minutes before

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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, 31 minutes before

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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, 24 minutes 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.

Local storm report, Apr 20, 2:03 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
202 PM MON APR 20 1992

TIME             EVENT
150 PM           BALDWIN COUNTY EMA REPORTED A MOBILE HOME UNROOFED AT
                 GULF STATE PARK NEAR GULF SHORES.

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, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	45 min
Apr 20, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	26 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

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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.