Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 262002 SVRMGM ALC101-262100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 3 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR ADA...PINE LEVEL...AND RAMER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL A PPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, 1 hour 22 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, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 69 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.