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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL

August 27, 1992Macon County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 1992, 2:09 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1992, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Macon County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 959 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 271909
TORMGM
ALC087-272015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
209 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...MACON COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
MOVING NORTHEAST INTO THE WESTERN PART OF MACON COUNTY AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE tBLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery58 min
Aug 27, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes64 min
Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBLowndes, Montgomery61 min
Aug 27, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBAutauga55 min
Aug 27, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBElmore, Montgomery58 min
Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw62 min
Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock64 min
Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBTallapoosa64 min
Aug 27, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLee68 min
Aug 27, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers65 min
Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMacon45 min
Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers, Lee55 min
Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour55 min

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.