Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1992, 3:57 AM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1992, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1992, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 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 KMGM 151001 SVRMGM ALC013-151100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 357 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...BUTLER COUNTY AT 357 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF BUTLER COUNTY NEAR GARLAND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 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, Feb 15, 1:45 AM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
FLZ001-002-003-004-ALZ010-013-014-015-016-017-018-MSZ012-013-014 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA... AT 1230 AM CST...LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH A FEW STRONG THUN- STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE FROM NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY TO NEAR MOBILE. THE HEAVIER STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE NORTH PARTS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES FLORIDA BY 2 AM. MOVEMENT WERE TO THE NORTHEAST AROND 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 1:51 AM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-150900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 151 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 AM... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 800 AM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 130 AM. SEVERAL REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS WERE RECEIVED BUT NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED AS YET. THE THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER THAT CROSSED MOBILE COUNTY HAD MOVED TO NORTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY AND WEAKENED SOMEWHAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA DURING THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. THEY WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT 145 AM SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MAINLY NORTH OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND WESTWARD INTO LOUISIANA. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR WEATHER EVENTS THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:40 AM CST, 17 minutes before
FLZ001-002-003-004-ALZ010-013-014-015-016-017-018-MSZ012-013-014 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA... WALTON AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...HOLMES AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 230 AM CST...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE OVER THE WESTERN PART OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WERE TO THE NORTHEAST AROND 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:41 AM CST, 16 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-151145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 337 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 6AM... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 8AM... AT 330 AM CST NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI OR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR LAUREL MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND jCLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
| Feb 15, 4:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 63 min |
| Feb 15, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga, Dallas | 56 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.