Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 2:34 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1993, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1993, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 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, 7.6 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
- 2928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 021938 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-ALZ501-022030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 234 PM CDT MON AUG 2 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY AND ADJACENT BAYS AND COASTAL WATERS. AT 234 PM MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR THEODORE TO SOUTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE BAY AND COASTAL WATERS...BOATERS AND FISHERMEN SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFTEY IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. \
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, Aug 2, 1:44 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 140 PM CDT MON AUG 2 1993 AT 130 PM CDT...A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM NEAR FT WALTON BEACH AND DESTIN NORTHEASTWARD TO BONIFAY IN HOLMES COUNTY OF FLORIDA. THE STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CAN EASILY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. SINCE THE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY LITTLE.V..FLOODING OF LOW AREAS IS LIKELY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE GULF BEGINNING 50 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA AND MOBILE BAY.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:46 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
MSZ013-014-ALZ501-LAZ501-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 145 PM CDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP ACROSS THE AREA... AAT 140 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG HAD DEVELOPED FROM NEAR SPANISH FORT TO CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY AND THEN SOUTHEAST TO NEAR PASCAGOULA. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY EAST. MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT RECEIVED .07 INCHES OF RAIN AND WIND GUST TO 49 MPH IN A THUNDERSTORM AROUND 115 PM. AS WITH ALL SUMMERTIME STORMS ...LIGHTNING IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT AND KILLS THE MOST PEOPLE DURING A TYPICAL YEAR. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS YOUR AREA...MOVE INDISE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRIAL APPLIANCES...STAY OFFP THE PHONE UNTIL THE DANGER HAS PASSED.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:49 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
MSZ013-014-ALZ501-LAZ501-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR 3RD LINE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 145 PM CDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP ACROSS THE AREA... AAT 140 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG HAD DEVELOPED FROM NEAR SPANISH FORT TO CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY AND THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PASCAGOULA. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY EAST. MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT RECEIVED .07 INCHES OF RAIN AND WIND GUST TO 49 MPH IN A THUNDERSTORM AROUND 115 PM. AS WITH ALL SUMMERTIME STORMS ...LIGHTNING IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT AND KILLS THE MOST PEOPLE DURING A TYPICAL YEAR. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS YOUR AREA...MOVE INDISE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRIAL AP\PLIANCES...STAY OFF THE PHONE UNTIL THE DANGER HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 57 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.