Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 10:02 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 10:02 AM CDT (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 271502 SVRMGM ALC101-271600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1002 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SELLERS AND RAMER NORTH TO PIKE ROAD ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCEP WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 27, 7:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 730 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES... AT 730 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. STRONGEST WERE OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TOWARDS THE NORTH AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 730 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 730 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. STRONGEST WERE OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TOWARDS THE NORTH AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 800 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN REDEFINED AND EXTENDED TO 3 PM TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...EXCEPT FOR MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES. MOBILE RADAR AT 8 AM SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE GULF SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WASHINGTON...CLARKE AND MONROE COUNTIES. THE MAJORITY OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA. A TORNADO WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FOR MARENGO COUNTY FOR A NORTHWARD MOVING STORM. MARENGO COUNTY IS JUST NORTH OF CLARKE COUNTY. ALL RESIDENTS OF THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFTEY ON SHORT NOTICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 8:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 835 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 830 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER BAY COUNTY AND 50 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TOWARDS THE NORTH AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 9:38 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 935 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 930 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 9:39 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-271645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 937 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 3 PM FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE... CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SAME COUNTIES TODAY... MOBILE RADAR SHOWS A BAND OF RAIN SWEEPING ACROSS WASHINGTON COUNTY AND NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED WEST INTO MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ALABAMA. THIS LARGE AREA OF RAIN...THE OUTER REMMANTS OF WHAT WAS ONCE ANDREW WAS DRIFTING NORTHEAST. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS WERE COMMON ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. STRONGER WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN SQUALLS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY FROM NEAR FAIRHOPE TO BAY MINETTE. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY NORTH NORTHEAST. IN MOBILE COUNTY...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AND A RISING TIDE WAS PUSHING WATER AND SOME DEBRIS ACROSS THE EAST BOUND LANE OF THE CAUSEWAY. THE ROAD WAS STILL OPEN AT 930 AM BUT THE HIGHWAY DEPT. WAS ASSESSING THE SITUATION. WATER WAS STANDING ON SOME OF THE APPROACHES TO THE INTERSTATE. HIGH TIDE IS AROUND 1 PM SO CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE THIS MORNING. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFTEY IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SGIGHTED OR FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR WARNINGS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Lowndes, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Elmore, Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Macon | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 55 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.