Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1992, 3:05 AM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1992, 3:05 AM CDT (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1992, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 250805 SVRMOB ALC053-250830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 305 AM CDT SAT APR 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 300 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. THE MOST INTENSE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HUXFORD JUST NORTH OF INTERSTATE 65. THIS STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BREWTON. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS WITHIN THE HOUR AS THESE STORMS MOVE 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 INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIV*E 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, 1 hour 22 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 2:40 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-202130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 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 2:30 AM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED EAST TO WEST THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ADJACENT SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS HAD MOVED JUST SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG AND WERE NUMEROUS EASTWARD TO THE NORTH END OF BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA...WHERE THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED. THE LINE WAS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE AND MOVING SOUTH AROUND 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke | 38 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.