Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 4:56 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1993, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 3307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 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 272157 SVRMGM ALC101-272300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 456 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 455PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF RAMER MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 27, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-272135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 AT 330 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO BAY COUNTY EAST OF PANAMA CITY. WIND GUSTS OF BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE WEST. IN ADDITION SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STORM. PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WOULD PUT IT NEAR PANAMA CITY BEACH BETWEEN 345 AND 415 PM. OTHER SHOWERS WERE ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM NORTH OF NAVARRE TO NORTH OF CRESTVIEW. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA FROM NEAR OPPd TO ALONG THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER WEST OF LINDEN. SHOWERS WERE OFFSHORE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE SAN BLAS TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA PASS. THE RAIN WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-272235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 AT 430 PM CDT... A THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN BAY COUNTY WEST OF PANAMA CITY. WIND GUSTS OF BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE WEST. IN ADDITION SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STORM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA. SHOWERS WERE OFFSHORE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE SAN BLAS TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA PASS. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE RAIN WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:45 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-272235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 1993 AT 430 PM CDT... A THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN BAY COUNTY WEST OF PANAMA CITY. WIND GUSTS OF BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE WEST. IN ADDITION SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STORM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA. SHOWERS WERE OFFSHORE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF CAPE SAN BLAS TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA PASS. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
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.