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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL

June 4, 1992Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1992, 3:02 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1992, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 27 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 042004
SVRMOB
MSC045-042045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
302 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY
AT 255 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED AN INTENSE
THUNDERSTORM NOW LEAVING THE LAKE BORGNE AREA OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
ENTERING THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS JUST SOUTH OF HANCOCK COUNTY.
THIS STORM HAS A PAST HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. RADAR IN
MOBILE CONFIRMS THAT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.
 
THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF PEARLINGTON
ON THE LOUISIANNA...MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 TO
20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
PERSONS AND MARINE INTERESTS IN SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY SHOULD START
TAKING APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW TO BE READY FOR THIS STORM.
 
 
 
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

Local storm report, Jun 4, 11:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
1115 AM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

DELAYED STORM REPORTS FROM WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1992

TIME          EVENT

930 AM        OKALOOSA COUNTY...A WATERSPOUT WAS SIGHTED BY SEVERAL
              PEOPLE AROUND FORT WALTON BEACH.  NO DAMAGE REPORTED.

1130 AM       ESCAMBIA COUNTY...A WATERSPOUT WAS SIGHTED BY SEVERAL
              PEOPLE IN PERDIDO BAY.  NO DAMAGE REPORTED.

1215 PM       WALTON COUNTY...LARGE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ACROSS POWER
              LINES ALONG HWY 83 NORTH OF GLENDALE.  RELAYED BY
              CHOCTAWHATCHEE ELECTRIC.

345 PM        BAY COUNTY...A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED\ NEAR SUNNYSIDE
              BEACH (JUST WEST OF PANAMA CITY BEACH).  MINOR DAMAGE
              TO A MOTEL AND SOME CARS AND TREES.  RELAYED BY BAY
              COUNTY E M.

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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.