Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1992, 6:20 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1992, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 KMOB 062321 SVRMOB MSC059-070000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 620 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 618 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF WADE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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, Aug 6, 2:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ001-002-062000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 200 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF ATMORE ALABAMA TO NEAR WALNUT HILL FLORIDA TO MOBILE BAY. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH... HEAVY RAINS CAUSING TEMPORARY FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECETED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH CENTURY AND MCDAVID BETWEEN 215 AND 245 PM AND WILL BE APPROACHING JAY AROUND 300 PM.F
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:27 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ013-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 525 PM CDT THU AUG 6 1992 AT 520 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MOBILE COUNTY DURING THE AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY BRIEFLY FLOOD STREETS AND ROADS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RESIDENTS OF JACKSON AND MOBILE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THE COASTS OF ALABAMA (AND MISSISSIPPI DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RESIDENTS ARE REMINDED TO PLAY IT SAFE WITH LIGHTNING...GO INDOORS IF A STORM APPROACHES.
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.