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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Mobile, AL

March 30, 1993Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 12:50 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 1993, 12:50 PM CST (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1993, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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

Local storm report, Mar 30, 9:24 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
920 AM CST TUESDAY MAR 30 1993

TIME             EVENT
0915             PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT WIGGINS IN
                 STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI BY WIGGINS PD.

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:34 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-301625-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
935 AM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR
THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA...

AT 925 AM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL STRETCHED
FROM 60 MILES SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY NORTHWEST INTO COASTAL MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COASTS OF ESCAMBIA
AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
ALSO...BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS PASS BY.

CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND (TONIGHT.

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:30 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-301725-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
1035 AM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR
THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA...

AT 1025 AM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL STRETCHED
FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY NORTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA AND
MOBILE AND CONTINUED INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.  MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COASTS OF ESCAMBIA
AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
ALSO...BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS PASS BY.

CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM
FOR THE REMDAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 12:34 PM CST, 16 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
Mar 30, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	59 min
Mar 30, 11:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	39 min
Mar 30, 12:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	54 min
Mar 30, 1:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	47 min
Mar 30, 9:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	41 min
Mar 30, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	45 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.