Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1992, 2:22 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1992, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1992, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 250722 SVRMOB ALC003-025-250800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 222 AM CDT SAT APR 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY AT 215 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF CARLTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PARTICULARLY IN THE COMMUNITIES OF NORTHWESTERN BLADWIN COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH YOUR 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 INTERIOR 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 25, 1:43 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-202130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 AM CDT SAT APR 25 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7AM CDT THIS SATURDAY MORNING FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 1:30 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FROM THE HATTIESBPURG AREA EASTWARD INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY OF ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEASTERLY AT 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 25 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.