Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1993, 5:35 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 KMOB 072236 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-072315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 535 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY AT 535 PM...WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM BAY MINETTE TO LOXLEY ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST AT 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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
405 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993
TIME EVENT
345 PM SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN IN SANTA
ROSA COUNTY NEAR I10 AND HWY 87
345 PM LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE IN BAGDAD
345 PM LIGHTNING STRUCK THE JAIL AND KNOCKED OUT 911 SERVICE
RELAYED BY SANTA ROSA COUNTY EMSpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-072035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 430 PM CDT...A LARGE CLUSTER OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE WEST END OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALL INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AROUND 10 MPH TOWARD BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA. FROM THE WEST END OF FLORIDA...RAIN SPREAD BACK EAST TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THESE TOO WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AROUND 10 MPH. OFFSHORE...SHOWERS WERE SPREADING INTO THE GULF AS THE STORMBS IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA MOVED SOUTHWEST...OTHER SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF FROM 50 TO 80 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA PASS.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-072225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 430 PM CDT...A LARGE CLUSTER OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE WEST END OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALL INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AROUND 10 MPH TOWARD BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA. FROM TFHE WEST END OF FLORIDA...RAIN SPREAD BACK EAST TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THESE TOO WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AROUND 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:01 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
ALZ016-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 455 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 455 PM...WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST NORTH OF SEMINOLE. PERSONS NEAR THIS ACTIVITY CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE COMMUNITITES OF SUMMERDALE...ELBERTA...LILLIAN AND ELBERTA MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE THUNDESTORMS IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:05 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
ALZ016-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 455 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 455 PM...WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST NORTH OF SEMINOLE. PERSONS NEAR THIS ACTIVITY CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE COMMUNITITES OF SUMMERDALE...ELBERTA...LILLIAN AND FOLEY MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE THUNDESTORMS IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR& AREA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:28 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
ALZ016-501-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 526 PM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA... AT 520 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BALDWIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR BAY MINETTE...TO LOXLEY...THEN TO FOLEY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NOT SEVERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. MARINE INTERESTS IN AND ALONG MOBILE BAY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE MARINE WARNINGS IN THE NEXT FbEW MINUTES IF THESE STORMS MAINTAIN THEIR INTENSITY AND MOVEMENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 51 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.