Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1993, 9:10 AM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1993, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1993, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 131411 RRA SVRMGM ALC069-131515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 910 AM CDT THU MAY 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...HOUSTON COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHFORD. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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 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, May 13, 8:38 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
FLZ003-004-131430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 835 AM CDT THU MAY 13 1993 AT 830 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS EXTENDED FROM NEAR DOTHAN ALABAMA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST ACROSS HOLMES COUNTY AND INTO THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN FREEPORT AND PANAMA CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE JUST WEST OF BONIFAY... SOUTHEAST OF FREEPORT. THE LINE OF ZTHUNDERSTORMS WAS SPREADING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR... WITH THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, May 13, 9:00 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
900 AM CDT THU MAY 13 1993
TIME EVENT
AROUND 840 AM HOLMES COUNTY...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED
QUARTER SIZE HAIL EAST OF ESTO AROUND INTERSECTION
OF HWY 2 AND HWY 173. THE HAIL LASTED ONLY A SHORT
TIME.Local storm report, May 13, 9:07 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
900 AM CDT THU MAY 13 1993
TIME EVENT
AROUND 840 AM HOLMES COUNTY...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED
QUARTER SIZE HAIL EAST OF ESTO AROUND INTERSECTION
OF HWY 2 AND HWY 173. THE HAIL LASTED ONLY A SHORT
TIME.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour, Bullock | 59 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.