Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 2:06 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1992, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 261909 SVRMGM ALC087-262015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 206 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MACON COUNTY AT 206 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN ELMORE AND NORTHWESTERN MACON COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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 DRIVE 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, Jun 26, 1:38 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-261930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 135 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 130 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...OCCURRING OVER STONE AND GEORGE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND OVER MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS NOTED WERE OVER BASIN AND AGRICOLA IN CENTRAL GEORGE COUNTY AND OVER EXTREME WESTERN MOBILE COUNTY JUST WEST OF WILMER. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...SUDDEN WIND GUSTS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF THESE THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THEY HAVE PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 60 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.