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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL

June 27, 1993Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1993, 1:47 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1993, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 271849
TORMOB
MSC045-LAZ501-271945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
147 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY
AT 143 PM...THE HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED TWO WATERSPOUTS
OCCURRING JUST OFFSHORE OF BUCKANEER STATE PARK NEAR WAVELAND. A TORNADO
WAS ALSO REPORTED NEAR HIGHWAY 603 AND INTERSTATE 10 NORTH OF BAY ST
LOUIS IN SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 27, 1:42 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

FLZ001>004-MSZ012>014-ALZ010-013>018-271930-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
135 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1993

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE
SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE IMMEDIATE ADJOINING
COASTAL WATERS.
SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 25 MILE RADIUS OF
PENSACOLA...BETWEEN FORT WALTON AND CRESTVIEW...AND BETWEEN FREEPORT
AND PANAMA CITY.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES
HOUR.
SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS
OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED
WITH SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS.
PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY
PRECAUTIONS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA.
IF THRxEATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT...TAKE
PROTECTIVE ACTION.

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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.