Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:01 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 102302 SVRMGM ALC017-110000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 601 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...CHAMBERS COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHAMBERS COUNTY...BETWEEN CAMP HILL AND LAFAYETTE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTZERIOR 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 10, 4:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
FLZ001-002-102230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 AT 430 PM CDT...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS INDICATING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PENSACOLA AND ON THE COAST NEAR PORT ST JOE. IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BRACKETED MOBILE. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQdUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS. MOVEMENTS WERE SLOWLY SOUTHWEST.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
ALZ016-102245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 450 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 THUNDERSTORMS OVER BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA HAVE WEAKENED AND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXPIRED AT 445 PM CDT. AT 450 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BALDWIN AND MOBILE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STROGEST STORMS WERE OVER MOBILE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNINhG...AND SMALL HAIL. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
FLZ001-002-102230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY ...DATE TIME CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 AT 430 PM CDT...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS INDICATING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PENSACOLA AND ON THE COAST NEAR PORT ST JOE. IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BRACKETED MOBILE. l HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS. MOVEMENTS WERE SLOWLY SOUTHWEST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 37 min |
| Aug 10, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.