Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 3, 1994, 10:12 PM CST for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 1994, 10:12 PM CST (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 1994, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 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 040413 RRA SVRMOB ALC025-053-099-040515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1012 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CLARKE COUNTY...WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY AT 1010 PM CST MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JACKSON ALABAMA TO URIAH TO NEAR ATMORE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS PRODUCED SOME TRAILER DAMAGE AT GRACELAND TRAILER PARK AT BAY MINETTE AND POWER LINES DOWN AT POWELL HEIGHTS. 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 ROAD.S 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, Dec 3, 4:38 PM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
MSC059-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 438 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...AT 435 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI IN JACKSON COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR OR OVER PASCAGOULA DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR WITH WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Dec 3, 4:39 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
MSC059-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 438 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...AT 435 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI IN JACKSON COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR OR OVER PASCAGOULA DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR WITH WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Dec 3, 6:26 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-040225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 626 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ISIN EFFECT FOR MOBILE...BALDWIN AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN ALABAMA AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT... LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES IN HARRISON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI...HEAVIEST RAIN HAS SHIFTED EAST TO JACKSON COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. AROUND SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAS FELL IN GULFPORT SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING AND RADAR ESTIMATES OF BETWEEN SEVEN AND EIGHT INCHES WERE SHOWN IN THE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF HARRISON COUNTY. THE CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTS SEVERAL ROADS WITH WATER ON THEM AND SOME STREETS STILL IMPASSABLE IN GULFPORT...SIMILIAR CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY THROUGHOUT HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTY. RADAR SHOWS RAIN...SOME HEAVY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO SOUTH OF MOBILE EXTENDING NORTH INTO CENTRAL ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. THE LARGE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ACROSS THE AREA AND PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCURR FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE BILOXI...WOLF AND TCHUTACABOUFFA RIVERS TONIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADAIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Dec 3, 7:42 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-040345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 742 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...A BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HURLEY AND BIG POINT MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY... AT 735 PM CST THE BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. MOVEMENT CONTINUES FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AT 30 MPH. BIG POINT MISSISSIPPI IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AT 730 THIS EVENING. AS THE HEAVY RAIN MOVES NORTH SOME PONDING OF WATER ON AREA STREETS AND ROADS IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN MOBILE. AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY AT THE NWS OFFICE AT MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT WITH SLIGHTLY GREATER AMOUNTS TO THE WEST...NEAR WILMER AND BIG CREEK LAKE, DOWNTOWN MOBILE REPORTED ABOUT A HALF INCH OF RAIN AT 7 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE.
Special weather statement, Dec 3, 7:43 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-040345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 742 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...A BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HURLEY AND BIG POINT MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY... AT 735 PM CST THE BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. MOVEMENT CONTINUES FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AT 30 MPH. BIG POINT MISSISSIPPI IN NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AT 730 THIS EVENING. AS THE HEAVY RAIN MOVES NORTH SOME PONDING OF WATER ON AREA STREETS AND ROADS IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN MOBILE. AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY AT THE NWS OFFICE AT MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT WITH SLIGHTLY GREATER AMOUNTS TO THE WEST...NEAR WILMER AND BIG CREEK LAKE, DOWNTOWN MOBILE REPORTED ABOUT A HALF INCH OF RAIN AT 7 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 9:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Dec 3, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.