Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 5:12 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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, 10.2 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
- 1194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 092213 SVRMOB ALC099-092245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 512 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY AT 508 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF URIAH...GOODWAY...AND MEGARGEL. RADAR INDICATIONS SHOW THAT SOME HAIL IS OCCURING WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS SLOW TO THE NORTHWEST. 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. F
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 9, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-014-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 235 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS AREA... AT 230 PM THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED THUNDERSTOMS NEAR CITRONELLE AND JUST WEST OF ROBERTSDALE. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AROUND GULFPORT...NEAR HATTIESBURG AND CRESTVIEW. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING NORTHWEST AND THEY WILL LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME STORMS GREATEST THREAT IS LIGHTNING. THESE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY DANGEROUS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. WHEN A STORM DOES THREATEN YOUR AREA STAY rCLEAR OF OPEN AREAS AND TALL OBJECTS...WINDOWS AND ELECTRIAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE THREAT IS OVER.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:03 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 505 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTING OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON... AT 5 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRONG IN NATURE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS NOTED BY RADAR WERE IN SOUTHERN CLARKE AND SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTIES NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF URIAH...GOODWAY...RANGE AND CASTLEBERRY. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE S2MALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS YOUR AREA...STAY CLEAR OF OPEN AREAS AND TALL OBJECTS IN ADDITION TO WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 29 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.