Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 182322 SVRMOB ALC003-053-190015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 621 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 620 PM CDY MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF PERDIDO IN NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS DRIFTING EAST. 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 18, 12:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 AT 1130 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE OVER THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. BOATERS AND RECREATIONIST IN THE COASTAL SECTIONS SHOULD TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS. ELSEWHERE. ..SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. ALSO IN THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN PENSACOLA AND FREEPORT OUT TO 100 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
MSZ013-182015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 214 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 210 PM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED JUST NORTHEAST OF THE PEARLINGTON...LOGTOWN AREA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS IN A THUNDERSTORM STAY AWAY FROM TALL TREES AND METAL STRUCTURES. TRY TOz SEEK SAFETY IN A BUILDING OR CLOSED AUTOMOBILE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
ALZ013-016-015-MSZ013-182315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 450 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS REGION... AT 445 PM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF BREWTON...JUST SOUTH OF BAY MINETTE...NEAR CHASTANG AND JUST NORTHEAST OF EVERGREEN. IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI STRONG STORMS WERE IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY WEST OF POPLARVILLE. LITTLE MOVEMENT NOTED BUT A TENDENCY FOR A NORTHEAST DRIFT OF THE STORMS. PERSONS NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE HAIL. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS IN A THUNDERSTORM STAY AWAY FROM TALL TREES AND METAL STRUCTURES. TRY TO SEEK SAFETY IN A BUILDING OR CLOSED AUTOMOBILE.
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.