Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1993, 5:33 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1993, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 232233 RRA SVRMGM ALC085-232330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 533 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...LOWNDES COUNTY AT 530PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF BENTON...AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO THE WEST OF MONTGOMERY AND ENTERING LOWNDES COUNTY. BOTH THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. 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 23, 4:45 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-232235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT FRI JUL 23 1993 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ...WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION WAS OVER COASTAL AND INTERIOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL WATERS...AND OVER THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN FLORIDA WERE AROUND THE CRESTVIEW AREA...AND FROM AROUND BONIFAY TO MARIANNA. SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND HATTIESBURG... AND ALONG THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY WINDS AROXUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTION IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 65 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.