Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1993, 2:15 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1993, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1993, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 301915 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-MSC039-302000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 215 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...GEORGE COUNTY AT 212 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF WILMER IN NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA AND JUST EAST OF LUCEDALE IN GEORGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND WAS BUILDING VERY RAPIDLY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 30, 1:54 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 153 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 1993 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 150 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA COASTAL COUNTIES WITH THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED NEAR FRANKLIN IN NORTHWEST MONROE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. TWO OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED IN MOBILE COUNTY...ONE NEAR GULFCREST IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY AND THE OTHER ON THE NORTHWEST TIP OF THE COUNTY AND EXTENDING INTO THE SOUTHWEST TIP OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. THESE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.