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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL

February 11, 1993Macon County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 1993, 9:33 PM CST for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 11, 1993, 9:33 PM CST (03:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 11, 1993, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Macon County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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, Feb 11, 6:39 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-120130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
635 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST THIS
THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA
ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND THE ADJOINING
COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON...

AT 630 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER INTERIOR
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTH MARENGO COUNTY NORTH OF LINDEN
AND IN SOUTH HALL COUNTIES OF ALABAMA...AND NORTH OF BAY ST LOUIS IN
HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AT THIS TIME.

Special weather statement, Feb 11, 7:10 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-120200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
705 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 10 PM...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI HAS
EXPIRED...

AT 700 PM CST RADAR SHOWED A SHORT LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PERRY
AND STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI MOVING INTO GREENE AND GEORGE COUNTIES.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

&

Special weather statement, Feb 11, 7:39 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-120230-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
735 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST THIS
THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA
ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND THE ADJOINING
COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON...

AT 730 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF LUCEDALE IN GEORGE COUNTY AND
IN SOUTH GREEN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI...AND IN DALLAS AND PERRY COUNTIES
OF ALABAMA0.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AT THIS TIME.

Special weather statement, Feb 11, 8:35 PM CST, 58 minutes before

FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-120330-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
835 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST THIS
THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND THE ADJOINING
COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON...

AT 830 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN WASHINGTON AND WESTERN
CLARKE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...10 TO 20 MILES WEST THROUGH
NORTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY..AND 20 TO 50 MILES NORTH OF SLIDELL LOUISIANA.
...THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME
SEVERE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AT THIS TIME.

Local storm report, Feb 11, 8:36 PM CST, 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
835 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993

TIME             EVENT

825 PM CST       DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE CROSSROADS
                 AND POPLARVILLE COMMUNITIES OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY
                 MISSISSIPPI.  REPORT RELAYED BY PEARL RIVER SHERIFFS
                 OFFICE.

Special weather statement, Feb 11, 9:27 PM CST, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 11, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dallas	56 min
Feb 11, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	44 min
Feb 11, 7:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	43 min
Feb 11, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Montgomery	44 min
Feb 11, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Hancock	48 min
Feb 11, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Pearl River	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.