Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1993, 5:57 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1993, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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, 11.0 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
- 211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 28, 1:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-282045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 148 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 145 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED JUST NORTHEAST OF ATMORE AND NEAR JACKSON. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHWEST. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT IS LIGHTNING AND THESE STORMS CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS YOUR AREA...MOVE INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS OR ELECTRIAL APPLIANCES. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE STAY IN YOUR AUTOMOBILE OR AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS AND METAL OBJECTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...SOME WILL BECOME STRONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LASTEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-282030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 AT 225 PM CDT...CLUSTERS OF LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WE
Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
410 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993
340 PM CDT ESCAMBIA COUNTY...TREES WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN ALONG
HIGHWAY 29 NEAR CANTONMENT. REPORTED BY SKYWARN.
THE PERSON REPORTED STRUCK BY LIGTNING NEAR PENSACOLA JUNIOR COLLEGE
WAS LATER DETERMINED TO BE A FALSE REPORT.Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
410 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993
340 PM CDT ESCAMBIA COUNTY...TREES WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN ALONG
HIGHWAY 29 NEAR CANTONMENT. REPORTED BY SKYWA8RN.
THE PERSON REPORTED STRUCK BY LIGTNING NEAR PENSACOLA JUNIOR COLLEGE
WAS LATER DETERMINED TO BE A FALSE REPORT.Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-282230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 430 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 AT 430 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER COASTAL MISSISSIPPI AND THE GULF SOUTH OF ALABAMA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LARGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH ALABAMA. ANOTHER VERY LARGE STORM THAT MAY LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WAS OVER MOST OF SOUTHERN WALTON COUNTY FLORIDA. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE WEST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:28 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
ALZ015-016-MSZ013-014-290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 527 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY... AT 525 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT EXTENDING INTO SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY. ST. ELMO REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM NEAR LUCEDALE TO SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM EVERGREEN TO NEAR BREWTON AND NEAR THOMASVILLE. LIGHTER RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY. A TREE WAS REPORTED BLOWN OVER EARILER NEAR DOG RIVER IN MOBILE COUNTY. WINDS GUSTING TO 30 TO 35 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM SEVERAL LOCATIONS. MOTORIST SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING IN HEAVY RAIN...SLOW DOWN AND AVOID FLOODED AREAS AND PONDING OXF WATER ON AREA ROADS. THE ROADS IN THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF MOBILE COUNTY ARE LIKELY WATER COVERED AND WILL REMAIN SO UNTIL THE RAINS SUBSIDE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 67 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.