Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1993, 3:31 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1993, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 2723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 142033 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-MSC039-142130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 331 PM CDT SAT AUG 14 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...GEORGE COUNTY AT 330 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT WEST TO BENNDALE MISSISSIPPI MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 14, 3:05 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ014-013-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 303 PM CDT SAT AUG 14 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE ALABAMA COASTAL COUNTIES... AT 300 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CITRONELLE IN NORTH MOBILE COUNTY WESTWARD TO JUST SOUTH OF LEAKESVILLE IN GREENE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND ON WEST TO NEAR NEW AUGUSTA IN PERRY COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SOUTHWARD FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND INTERSECT THE SEA-BREEZE LINE IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME VERY STRONG WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE THE USUAL DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RESIDENTS IN MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES OF ALABAMA...AND GREENE... PERRY...GEORGE. ..STONE...JACKSON AND HARRISON COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
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.