Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1993, 1:52 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1993, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1993, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMGM 141854 RRA SVRMGM ALC039-142000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 152 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...NORTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILE NORTH OF GANTT. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHSOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 15 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
Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 800 AM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 TIME EVENT 545 PM CDT TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN JUST EAST OF BEATRICE SUNDAY IN SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. REPORT FROM JUNE 13TH.. STONE EOC.
Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 800 AM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 TIME EVENT 545 PM CDT TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN JUST EAST OF BEATRICE SUNDAY IN SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. REPORT FROM JUNE 13TH.. STONE EOC.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:11 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-141915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 111 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN TODAY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALALBAMA... AS THEY DID SUNDAY AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE QUITE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. AT 100 PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE EXTREME EASTERN SECTIONS OF CONECUH COUNTY AND IN SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. MARINE WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED IF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN BALDWIN COUNTY CONTINUE THEIR PRESENT INTENSITY AND MOVE INTO THE COASTAL WATERS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING AND RESIDENTS SHOULD RREMAIN INDOORS AS STORMS MOVE OVER THEIR LOCATION. SOME HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS AND WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION IN THOSE AREAS.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:41 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-141935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 140 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM PENSACOLA TO MILTON TO FORT WALTON BEACH. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY DRIFT SOUTH. BECAUSE OF THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT HEAVY RAINS FROM THE STORMS WILL CAUSE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM ALONG THE ALABAMA RIVER NEAR MILLERS FERRY TO NORTH OF CRESTVIEW. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WERE WEST OF ANDALUSIA. SHOWERS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF CITRONELLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dallas | 47 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.