Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1993, 1:53 AM CST for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 1993, 1:53 AM CST (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1993, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 210754 SVRMOB ALC003-053-210845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 153 AM CST THU JAN 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 145 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE NEAR PERDIDO AND ANOTHER NEAR LATHAM...BOTH IN BALDWIN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. WIND DAMAGE IS LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOO&D ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 20, 8:45 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-210545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 845 PM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR TONIGHT... HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THIS EVENING AND HAS MOVED INTO MOBILE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AROUND 7 PM. SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... ..HARRISON COUNTY..NEARLY 6 INCHES OF RAIN TO 830 PM. BILOXI RIVER AT 14 FEET. TCHOUTACABOUFFA RIVER 8.8 FEET. ..PEARL RIVER COUNTY..HIGHWAYS 11 AND 43 HAVE RUNNING WATER ACROSS THEM. SEVERAL OTHER ROADS ARE CLOSED. ..STONE COUNTY..SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. ..PERRY COUNTY..SOME ROADS HAVE WATER ON THEM. SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... ..MOBILE COUNTY..MOBILE AIRPORT HAS HAD OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN..NEARLY 2 INCHES SINCE 7 PM. NO REPORTS OF WATER PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL THE COLD FRONT NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER MOVES EASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR MOBILE AROUND SUNRISE. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN AUTOMOBILES ARE DRIVEN INTO FLOODED AREAS. STAY IN...AND IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. &
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 1:21 AM CST, 32 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-210930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 121 AM CST THU JAN 21 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING... ...UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING... AT 2 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT A WARM FRONT PASSED THE MOBILE AIRPORT... THE TEMPERATURE WARMED RAPIDLY TO 68 DEGREES. AT 28 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT...THE FRONT MOVED SOUTH ACROSS THE AIRPORT AS A COLD FRONT AND THE TEMPERATURE FELL RAPIDLY TO 61 DEGREES. THEN...AT 1250 AM THE FRONT MOVED NORTH OF THE AIRPORT AGAIN AS A WARM FRONT AND THE TEMPERATURE WARMED TO 68 AGAIN AT 100 AM...A TOTAL CHANGE OF 14 DEGREES IN AN HOUR. THIS UNSETTLED CONDITION IS TRIGGERING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE PRODUCED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. RAIN AT MOBILE TOTALLED 4.62 INCHES FOR WEDNESDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT LATER TODAY. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND STREAMS IN THE AREA ARE AT BANKFULL OR HIGHER AND ANY ADDITONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. RESIDENTS LIVING IS AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RISING WATER. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IN DRIVING ON ROADS WITH WATER ON THEM. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ALSO PRODUCE...IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. IF THE STORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY...WARNINGS MAY BE ISSUED LATER THIS MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 4:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 46 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.