Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1993, 3:22 AM CST for Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 1993, 3:22 AM CST (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1993, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jan 11, 10:00 PM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes before
ALZ016-120500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 958 PM CST MON JAN 11 1993 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME LOCATIONS IN MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES. THE FOG WILL LIKELY CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING TUESDAY. MOTORIST SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITIES AS THEY TRAVEL THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 1:56 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-014-120930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 155 AM CST TUE JAN 12 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... DENSE FOG REMAINS ANCHORED ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI . VISIBILITIES RANGE FROM ZERO UP TO A HALF MILE AT MOST SPOTS. DRIZZLE AND SOME RAINSHOWERS WERE ADDING TO THE DRIVING WOES IN MANY LOCATIONS. RAIN WAS DEPICTED BY RADAR FROM DAUPHIN ISLAND ACROSS THE BAY TO FORT MORGAN AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY. A LARGER AREA OF RAIN WAS IN THE COASTAL WATERS JUST SOUTH OF ORANGE BEACH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NO RAIN WAS SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...ALTHOUGH A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM MERIDIAN TO MCCOMB. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS POSTED FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SINCE THE SOIL IS SATURATED FROM THE HEAVY RAINS OF YESTERDAY. A FLASH FLO$OD WATCH MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHEN DRIVING TONIGHT OR EARLY THIS MORNING PLEASE LEAVE A BIT EARLIER THAN NORMAL AND SLOW DOWN SO YOU CAN ARRIVE ALIVE.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 2:33 AM CST, 49 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-120925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 AM CST TUE JAN 12 1993 AT 225 AM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS IN HOLMES COUNTY FLORIDA NORTHWEST OF WESTVILLE AND CARYVILLE NEAR PROSPERITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM...AS WELL AS OTHERS THIS MORNING...HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY HOLMES COUNTY...SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WEATHER AND BE READY TO PROTECT LIFE ANDr PROPERTY IF NECESSARY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE ADJACENT GULF.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 2:35 AM CST, 47 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-120925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 AM CST TUE JAN 12 1993 AT 225 AM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS IN HOLMES COUNTY FLORIDA NORTHWEST OF WESTVILLE AND CARYVILLE NEAR PROSPERITY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM...AS WELL AS OTHERS THIS MORNING...HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY IN HOLMES COUNTY...SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WEATHER AND BE READY TO PROTECT LI~FE AND PROPERTY IF NECESSARY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE ADJACENT GULF.
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.