Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1993, 3:49 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1993, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1993, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 142051 RRA SVRMGM ALC131-142145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 349 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH INDICATIONS OF HAIL IN EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY BETWEEN SNOW HILL AND FURMAN NORTH OF ROUTE 21. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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 14, 1:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 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, 2 hours 8 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-142035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 240 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA WITH MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONFINED TO THE WEST HALF OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM NORTHEAST PENSACOLA TO CRESTVIEW TO FORT WALTON BEACH. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE VERY LITTLE. 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 SOUTHEAST OF BREWTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WERE ALONG I65 NORTHWEST OF BREWTON AND NEAR EVERGREEN. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NEAR ANDALUSIA...NEAR MOBILE AND NEAR GULF SHORES. * THE THUNDERSTORMS IN ALABAMAH WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:45 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-142135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ALONG A SHORT LINE FROM MCDAVID TO CRESTVIEW TO DE FUNIAK SPRINGS. TORRENTIAL RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STORMS IN THIS SHORT LINE. IN ADDITION SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTH AND SHOULD MOVE BACK THROUGH MILTON AND THE FREEPORT AREAS BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM NEAR SELMA TO ATMORE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE ALONG THE ALABAMA RIVER EAST OF MILLERS FERRY. ALONG THE COAST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI TO MOBILE BAY AND ALONG THE APALACHICOLA RIVER SOUTH OF BLOUNTSTOWN. THIS RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.L
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dallas | 47 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.