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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL

July 8, 1993Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 12:13 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1993, 12:13 PM CDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
62 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, 5.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 224 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 081718 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC003-ALZ501-081815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1213 PM CDT THU JUL 8 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY
 
AT 1210 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOLEY
ALABAMA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH.
 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE EASTERN SHORE OF MOBILE BAY WERE MOVING
TO THE WEST OVER THE BAY AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF GALE
FORCE...VERY ROUGH SEAS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER IN AN INSIDE ROOM.
 
SMALL CRAFT OPERATORS ON MOBILE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR.

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, Jul 8, 11:57 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-501-LAZ501-081900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1156 AM CDT THU JUL 8 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY...

AT 1150 AM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG HAD
DEVELOPED RAPIDLY FROM NEAR MALBIS TO GULF SHORES. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT
5 TO 10 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL  ARE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR MARLOW.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WERE BETWEEN THOMASVILLE AND CHANCE IN
NORTHEAST CLARKE COUNTY. THESE WERE PART OF A LARGER RAIN AREA ACROSS
MOST OF MONROE AND EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 5 TO 10
MPH.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO 50 MILES SOUTH OF
DAUPHIN ISLAND. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY WEST AND THESE LIKELY CONTAIN VERY
HEAVY RAIN...POOR VISIBILITIES AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

STAY TUNDED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INrFORMATION AND
ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBTallapoosa58 min
Jul 8, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBElmore64 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.