Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1992, 5:56 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1992, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 032259 COR SVRMOB ALC099-032345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 556 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 555 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS NEAR MEGARGEL AND FRISCO CITY. 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, Jun 3, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 235 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...THE ADJACENT COASTAL AND GREENE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. AT 230 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA NEAR STOCKTON AND ALONG THE ALABAMA ...MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE SKIRTING THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WAHINGTON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THESE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE TORNADO WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD STAY ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
FLZ001-004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 330 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE ALABAMA...FLORIDA STATE LINE...SCATTERED IN THE EAST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND IN SOUTH ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO THIS SOURCE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 335 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... ...TORNADO WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS SHOWING A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CRESTVIEW FLORIDA TO JUST EAST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE WAS INDICATED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF CHOCTAW COUNTY ALABAMA. THIS STORM IS MOVING INTO NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY ALABAMA AND WILL SOON AFFECT PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF WOODS BLUFF AND CAMPBELL. ALL PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION AND COMMpERCIAL RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
FLZ001-004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-032235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 430 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE EAST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS...AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION WAS FROM AROUND THE PORT ST JOE AND APALACHICOLA AREAS TO AROUND THE MARIANNA TO TALLAHASSEE AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST OF MERIDIAN MISS- ISSIPPI AND EXTENDED EAST AND SOUTHEAST INTO ALABAMA. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CHOCTAW...SUMTER...AND CLARKE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:32 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 525 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... ...TORNADO WATCH ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTING OVER CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY HAS SINCE DISSIPATED BUT NEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF CLARKE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BETWEEN THE COMMUNITIES OF WHATLEY ...JACKSON AND CHOCTAW BLUFF. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH TOWARDS THE MONROE COUNTY LINE. STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL ARE A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI NO SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR. ALL PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE} SKY THIS EVENING AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES FOR OUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:44 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
FLZ001-004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-032335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 530 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE EAST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS...AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION WAS FROM NORTHEAST OF PANAMA CITY TO AROUND CHATTAHOOCHEE...AND FROM AROUND APALACHICOLA TO AROUND TALLAHASSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTH- EAST MISSISSIPPI. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WAS 20 TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTH OF ATMORE...AND MOVING INTO MARENGO COUNTY ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ALL NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND WATCH FOR THREATENING CONDITIONS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE AREA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 55 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.