Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1993, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County George County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 132231 RRA SVRMOB MSC039-131-132315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 530 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...WESTERN GEORGE COUNTY...EASTERN STONE COUNTY AT 530 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THE GEORGE STONE COUNTY LINE NEAR RUBLE. THE SEVERE STORM WAS DRIFTING WEST. 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 POSSIBLE 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, Jun 13, 1:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-132015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 118 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 1993 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON... WITH AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS AND TEMPERATURES THAT HAVE ALREADY REACHED THE MID 90S...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME QUITE STRONG. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH OR MORE...HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY LITTLE WITH ONLY A SLIGHT SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST DRIFT. PERSONS TAKING PART IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AND GO INDOORS IF THE SKY BECOMES DARK OR THUNDER IS HEARD. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING IS AN UNDERRATED KILLER AND CAN STRIKE FAR FROM THE STORM. AT 115 PM...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR FORMING OVER EXTREME SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:35 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 435 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN IN A FEW PLACES... AT 430 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MOBILES DOWNTOWN AIRPORT AT BROOKLEY AND NEAR WADE IN JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. BROKKLEY WAS REPORTING WAS REPORTING LOW VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN AROUND 415 PM WITH WIND GUSTING TO ABOUT 30 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDEWRSTORMS WERE IN BALDWIN COUNTY FROM NEAR SPANISH FORT TO HURRICANE...NORTHEAST MONROE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY AND AROUND LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING WEST. LIGHTNING IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEM4ENT OF A SUMMERTIME STORM. WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...GO INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRIAL APPLIANCES...STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:41 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 435 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN IN A FEW PLACES... AT 430 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MOBILES DOWNTOWN AIRPORT AT BROOKLEY AND NEAR WADE IN JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. BROOKLEY WAS REPORTING LOW VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN AROUND 415 PM WITH WIND GUSTING TO ABOUT 30 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN BALDWIN COUNTY FROM NEAR SPANISH FORT TO HURRICANE...NORTHEAST MONROE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY AND AROUND LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING WEST. LIGHTNING IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT OF A SUMMERTNIME STORM. WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...GO INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRIAL APPLIANCES...STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
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.