Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 1992, 1:25 PM CST for Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 1992, 1:25 PM CST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 1992, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dale County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 121942 TORMGM ALC045-122030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 125 PM CST THU NOV 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230P CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...COVINGTON COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF ANDALUSIA AT 125 PM CDT. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WSORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Nov 12, 9:07 AM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-121615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 907 AM CST THU NOV 12 1992 AT 9 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FROM NORTHWESTERN GEORGE COUNTY SOUTH TO BILOXI THEN SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND INTO LOUISANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IMBEDED IN A LARGE AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN AND RAIN SHOWERS THAT COVERED MOST OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND PART OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 11:02 AM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-121800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1102 AM CST THU NOV 12 1992 AT 11 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONROEVILLE ALABAMA TO MOBILE THEN SOUTHEAST ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI COAST. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE MOBILE AREA WERE MORE THEN 1.25 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALL DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL P2RODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. THEY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS TO FLOOD.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 11:36 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-121825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CST THU NOV 12 1992 AT 1135 AM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM EVERGREEN ALABAMA SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND CONTINUED OVER COASTAL ALABAMA TO PASCAGOULA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS EVIDENCED BY MOBILE WHICH RECEIVED AN INCH AND A HALF IN A SHORT PERIOD AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH THAT AREA. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE APPROACHING STORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE COVER AS NECESSARY OR IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED NEAR APALACHICOLA.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 12:31 PM CST, 54 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-121925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 PM CST THU NOV 12 1992 AT 1235 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM ANDALUSIA ALABAMA SOUTHWEST TO NORTHWEST ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA THEN CONTINUED OVER COASTAL ALABAMA TO DAUPHIN ISLAND AND THE NEARBY COASTAL WATERS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS EVIDENCED BY MOBILE WHICH RECEIVED 2.50 INCHES WHEN THE STORMS PASSED THROUGH THE AREA. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE APPROACHING STORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF NECESSARY OR IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. OTHER SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE NEAR THE APALACHICOLA RIVER AND IN THE GULF NEAR APALACHICOLA AND PANAMA CITY.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 1:12 PM CST, 13 minutes before
FLZ001>004-122000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 105 PM CST THU NOV 12 1992 A NARROW BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE WESTERN PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SPREADING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS REDUCING VISIBILITY AND CREATING BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR MAY BE EXPECTED ALONG THE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE STROMS SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE AHCTION IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT.
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 1:23 PM CST, 2 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-122030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 123 PM CST THU NOV 12 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY CANCELED... ...SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS EXPIRED... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF MOBILE COUNTY. WHILE THE MOBILE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT MEASURED OVER 3.00 INCHES OF RAINFALL BETWEEN 10 AM AND 1 PM NO FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED. AT 115 PM CST RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTOMS FROM NEAR ANDALUSIA ALABAMA TO PENSACOLA FLORIDA THEN SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE GULF TO NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 11:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Nov 12, 1:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw, Pike | 67 min |
| Nov 12, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale, Henry, Houston | 56 min |
| Nov 12, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 54 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.