Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 7:20 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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 9, 1992, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crenshaw County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Crenshaw, 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
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 771 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 KMGM 100020 SVRMGM ALC041-100115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 720 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...CRENSHAW COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY AT 7 20PM CDT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PETRY MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 10 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. HREAVY 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 9, 2:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 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, 2 hours 17 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
ALZ015-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 610 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CONECUH COUNTY EXPIRED AT 600 PM CDT... AT 605 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CONECUH COUNTY TO HAVE ALSO WEAKENED SOMEWHAT OVER THE PAST FEW MINUTES AND THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THAT AREA WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CONECUH AS WELL AS MONROE COUNTY ARE NO LONGER SEVERE...THEY ARE STILL STRONG AND CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STRONGST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF FOUNTAIN AND PETERMAN IN CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST VERY SLOWLY. PERSONS IN MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY THIS EVENING UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVIJTY HAS DIMINISHED.
Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:40 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
635 PM CDT THU JUL 9 1992
TIME EVENT
524PM 1 HOUSE DAMAGED BY DOWNED TREE AND SEVERAL TREES
AND DOWNED POWERLINES BLOCKING ROADWAYS NEAR
CASTLEBERRY IN CONECUH COUNTY.
545PM TREE DOWNED AND BLOCKING THE ROADWAY ALONG US HWY
84 WEST OF EVERGREEN IN CONECUH COUNTY.
REPORTS COURTESY EVERGREEN STATE POLICE OFFICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.