Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1992, 4:48 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 262148 SVRMGM ALC017-262230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 448 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...CHAMBERS COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL POSSIBLE ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN E MERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 26, 12:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1230 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 5 PM... AT 1225 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.. THE STRONGEST STORMS NOTED BY MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WERE OVER NORTHEAST CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA NEAR THOMASVILLE AND OVER CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI NORTH OF LEAKESVILLE. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO OR DETECTED BY THIS OFFICE SO FAR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI TODAY AS TROPICAL STORM ANDREW MOVES NORTHWARD THROUGH LOUISIANA. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT THIS AFTERNOON AS TORNADOES CAN STRIKE WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. SOUTHWEST ALABAMA RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT DISREGARD THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY EITHER...ALTHOUGH THE THREAT IS GREATEST IN MISSISSIPPI. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY.
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 2:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 200 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 5 PM... AT 155 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...THE STRONGEST STORMS NOTED BY MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WERE OVER NORTHERN CONECUH COUNTY ALABAMA JUST NORTH OF EVERGREEN. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER JACKSON...STONE AND GREENE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. EVERGREEN STATE POLICE OF ALABAMA REPORTED STRONG WIND GUSTS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN CONECUH COUNTY ROLLED THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OF EVERGREEN. RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN CONECUH COUNTY AND THE ADJOINING AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE GREATEST WEATHER THREAT THIS AFTERNOON EXISTS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. ALTHOUGH SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TODAY...NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE. THIS DOES NOT LESSEN THE THREAT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. RESIDENTS IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT TODAY AS MANY TORNADOES OFTEN STRIKE WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND PDOSSIBLE TORNADOES IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY.
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 4:08 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
MSZ014-013-262215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 406 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 772 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 4 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE DETECTED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. DUE TO THE LINGERING THREAT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS EXTENDED THE TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY NOTED BY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS ALONG THE MISSISIPPI...LOUISIANA STATE LINE JUST WEST OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES NORTH OF THE NEW ORLEANS AREA. PERSONS IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER SITUATION OVER THE NEXT FEW MINUTES...SHOULD A WARNING BE NECESSARY. ELSEWHERE...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER GEORGE AND GREENE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. AGAIN...ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ALL PERSONS IN SOU:THEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 66 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.