Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 64 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.