Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1993, 6:39 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1993, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 272340 RRA SVRMGM ALC087-280030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 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 ...WESTERN MACON COUNTY AT 637 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN MACON COUNTY...ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF SHORTER. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. IT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 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
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE IMMEDIATE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 25 MILE RADIUS OF PENSACOLA...BETWEEN FORT WALTON AND CRESTVIEW...AND BETWEEN FREEPORT AND PANAMA CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES HOUR. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA. IF THRxEATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT...TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 210 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...WITH SOME STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE PENSACOLA AREA...JUST SOUTH OF CRESTVIEW...10 MILES SOUTH OF REDBAY IN WALTON COUNTY...WITH OTHER DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES ...AND CENTRAL WALTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN CREATING SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS... GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-272030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993 THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES...OVER NORTHEAST SANTA ROSA AND NORTHWEST OKALOOSA COUNTIES...AND SCATTERED FROM NEAR DEFUNIAK SPRINGS TO NEAR PANAMA CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY AND WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERhSTORMS. PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS. IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT... TAKE THE NECESSARY PROTECTIVE ACTION.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ013-272315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 519 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 510 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME EASTERN GEORGE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI EXTENDING DUE WEST ACROSS STONE COUNTY. ANOTHER LARGE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF BREWTON IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 12 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM OBSERVED WAS JUST WEST OF LUCEDALE IN GEORGE COUNTY. HAIL WILL LIKELY BE OBSERVED IN AND AROUND LUCEDALE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOTS OF LIGHTNING ...HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADS...AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS GEORGE AND STONE COUNTY CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST...SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN GEORGE COUNTY. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY ALERT AND WATCH FOR RISING WATER. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY BEFORE 600 PM.
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.