Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 5:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 312200 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-097-312300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 500 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY...CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY AT 455 PM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG TO OCCASSIONALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR WILMER TO CREOLA AND SARALAND IN MOBILE COUNTY TO STAPLETON AND GATESWOOD IN BALDWIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS MOBILE BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM. DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED IN CREOLA AT 449PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIB LE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
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 31, 12:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1253 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON... RESIDENTS LIVING IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA CAN AGAIN EXPECT WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. AT 1250 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUMEROUS RAINSHOWERS DTHUNDERSTORMS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED IN NORTH WASHINGTON AND NORTH CLARKE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI COAST NEAR GULFPORT AND PASCAGOULA. THESE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND WILL DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT AND MONITOR THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR CONTINUED UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-312245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 347 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON... AT 345 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTHEAST FROM NEAR GULFPORT THROUGH HARRISON...JACKSON...GEORGE AND GREENE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ACROSS MOBILE...WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL AND NORTH MOBILE COUNTY AND NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY OF SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST GREENE COUNTY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AND WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIER NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIAS FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
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.