Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1993, 4:29 AM CST for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 1993, 4:29 AM CST (10:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1993, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 46 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, 10.5 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 211029 SVRMOB ALC003-053-211115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 429 AM CST THU JAN 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY...ESCAMBIA COUNTY INCLUDING BAYS...INLETS...AND INLAND WATERWAYS AT 425 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF PERDIDO SOUTHWEST TO NEAR POINT CLEAR AND THEN CONTINUING SOUTHWEST INTO MOBILE BAY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND ACCELERATING. IN ADDITION...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR ATMORE IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WIND WERE REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASSED THROUGH MOBILE COUNTY AND THE STORMS HAVE INCREASED IN INTENSITY. WIND DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 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 RAfINS FLOOD 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 21, 1:21 AM CST, 3 hours 8 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, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 52 min |
| Jan 21, 4:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993Every 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.