Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 3:11 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mobile, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KMOB 032012 SVRMOB ALC097-032115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 311 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY AT 310 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED IN THIS THUNDERSTORM. IT WILL PASS NEAR THE SEVEN HILLS AND DAWES COMMUNITIES. 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, Jul 3, 1:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
ALZ013-015-031915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 108 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 500 PM... THE COUNTIES OF WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE AND CONECUH IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ARE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 500 PM. WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT 100 PM INDICATED NO RAINFALL IN ANY OF THESE COUNTIES AS YET...HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST ACROSS THE STATE LINE IN MISSISSIPPI AND WILL MOVE TOWARD WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT. RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:22 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 221 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE ...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF ALABAMA UNTIL 500 PM... AT 215 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER OF CLARKE COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHWEST HANCOCK COUNTY. IF THIS THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP...A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR HANCOCK AND/OR HARRISON COUNTIES IMISSISSIPPI. THE ATMOfSPHERE OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA ESPECIALLY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:23 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR TYPEOVER... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 221 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE ...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF ALABAMA UNTIL 500 PM... AT 215 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER OF CLARKE COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES. A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHWEST HANCOCK COUNTY. IF THIS THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP...A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR HANCOCK AND/OR HARRISON COUNTIhES IN MISSISSIPPI. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA ESPECIALLY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.