Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1993, 2:24 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1993, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1993, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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
- 1767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 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 111925 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-112015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 224 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY AT 223 MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT...NEAR SEMMES. THE SEVERE STORM WAS DRIFTING NORTHEAST. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 10:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-ALZ501-LAZ501-111730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1027 AM CDT SUN JUL 11 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE AND DISSIPATE ACROSS THE REGION... AT 1025 AM CDT MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN EAST OF THE AIRPORT NEAR I-65. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE SOUTH HALF OF MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTY AND IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING NORTHEAST...HOWEVER THEY TEND TO DISSIPATE AND REFORM IN DIFFERENT AREAS AFTER A BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE WITH US FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. LIGHTNING IS GENERALLY THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT OF A SUMMERTIME STORM. WHEN A STORM THREATENS YOUR AREA MOVE INSIDE OR IF AFLOAT STEER CLEAR OF DARK THREATENING CLOUDS. REMEMBER IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE RAINING TO HAVE LIGHTNING STRIKE YOUR LOCdATION. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 45 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.