Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1993, 3:46 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1993, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1993, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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, 8.8 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
- 2276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 192050 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-192145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 346 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 345 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF MOBILE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. 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 19, 2:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 240 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 AT 230 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST...ESPECIALLY ON THE COAST FROM PENSACOLA TO FT WALTON BEACH...AND IN WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTY. REPORTS OF HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE NICEVILLE AREA OF OKALOOSA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH...INTO THE GULF...AT THE PRESENT TIME. GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:43 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR BAY COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 330 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN BAY COUNTY NEAR LYNN HAVEN. THE STORM HAD WEAKENED SLIGHTLY DURING THE PAST HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE COAST FFROM MOBILE AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA...EAST ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE TO BAY COUNTY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENTS WERE SOUTHERLY AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CDT THU AUG 19 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR BAY COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 330 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN BAY COUNTY NEAR LYNN HAVEN. THE STORM HAD WEAKENED SLIGHTLY DURING THE PAST HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE CONAST FROM MOBILE AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA...EAST ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE TO BAY COUNTY. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENTS WERE SOUTHERLY AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 68 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.