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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL

May 24, 1992Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1992, 6:11 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1992, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 242311
SVRMOB
ALC097-250015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
611 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MOBILE COUNTY
 
 
 
AT 610 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT MOVING TO THE EAST 15 MPH. THIS STORM
POSSIBLY CONTAINS LARGE HAIL.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, May 24, 5:23 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-242320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
520 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1992

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND
   SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

AT 515 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE GENERALLY BETWEEN GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI AND GROVE HILL ALABAMA
...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY
WINDS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.  THOSE ENJOYING OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LIGHTNING AND SEEK SAFE
SHELTER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

ON THE GOOD SIDE...SOME IN AREAS RECEIVING SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL MAY
CONSIDER IT A BLESSING.

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.