Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1993, 6:29 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1993, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crenshaw County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 KMGM 112330 RRA SVRMGM ALC041-120030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 629 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...CRENSHAW COUNTY WEATHER RADAR IN EAST ALABAMA AND DANNELLY FIELD SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE MOVING NORTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ013-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 256 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1993 ...WIDLY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR AT 255 PM DEVELOPING ALONG THE SEA BREEZE FRONT NEAR THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ALTHOUGH NOT DROUGHT-BREAKERS BY ANY MEANS...WHERE THE STORMS DO OCCUR THEY WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. MORE OF THE SAME IS INDICATEDD SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-112130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1993 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND BONIFAY...JUST EAST OF MILTON...AND BETWEEN DESTIN AND CRESTVIEW. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AND INDICATED LITTHLE MOVEMENT. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WIND. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-112130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 1993 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OVER THE NORTH 1/2 OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN THE PERDIDO AND THE APALACHICOLA RIVERS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG WIND WAS OVER NORTHWEST WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST WALTON COUNTIES FLORIDA. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva, Houston | 60 min |
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.