Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1993, 7:32 PM CST for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 1993, 7:32 PM CST (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 1993, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 060132 RRA SVRMGM ALC109-060230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 732 PM CST FRI NOV 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...PIKE COUNTY EUFAULA POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN AND BLOWING DEBRIS IN TROY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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, Nov 5, 5:02 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 500 PM CST FRI NOV 5 1993 AT 500 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHERN GREENE AND PERRY COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDSn...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS EVENING. THE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT THAT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH COASTAL ALABAMA BY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 6:11 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TTAA00 KPNS060011
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 6:12 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 600 PM CST FRI NOV 5 1993 A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE LEADING EDGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 25 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE AND ATMORE...AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST INTO MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHEAST TO NEAR MONTGOMERY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA TO THE PANAMA CITY AND APALACHICOLA AREAS...THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 6:21 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-060115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 620 PM CST FRI NOV 5 1993 AT 615 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE LINE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR EVERGREEN IN CONECUH COUNTY ALABAMA TO CITRONELLE IN MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA TO JUST NORTH OF PICAYUNE IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE L INE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 6:46 PM CST, 46 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-060130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 640 PM CST FRI NOV 5 1993 AT 630 MP CST...LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND...WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH- EAST LOUISIANA...AND INTO THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS TO 75 MILES. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF BAY AND GULF COUNTIES AND MOVING ONSHORE BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND APAPALCHICOLA...AND OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FROM SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY AND EXTENDED TO JUST NORTH OF BREWTON AND ATMORE AND ON SOUTHWEST INTO MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPREADING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry | 63 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.