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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL

January 27, 1994Autauga County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1994, 9:27 PM CST for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1994, 9:27 PM CST (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1994, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Autauga County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 498 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 767 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 
WUUS1 KMGM 280328 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC001-280430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
927 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...AUTAUGA COUNTY
 
AT 926 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF PRATTVILLE MOVING TO THE EAST AT
AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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

Local storm report, Jan 27, 8:00 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
800 PM CST THUR JAN 27 1994

TIME             EVENT
745 PM           STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI SO REPORTED TREES DOWN
                 NEAR PERKINSTON.  POWER OUTAGES ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

WWUS35KNYC-HrWWUS35 KNYC 280200
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Local storm report, Jan 27, 8:11 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
812 PM CST THUR JAN 27 1994

TIME             EVENT
750 PM           MOBILE COUNTY 911 REPORTED SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN THE
                 CITY OF MOBILE DUE TO STRONG WINDS.

Local storm report, Jan 27, 8:24 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
820 PM CST THUR JAN 27 1994

TIME             EVENT
740 PM           PEARL-RIVER SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
                 DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 11 NORTH OF TOWN.

Local storm report, Jan 27, 8:42 PM CST, 45 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
840 PM CST THUR JAN 27 1994

TIME             EVENT
740 PM           WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                 A FEW TREES DOWN AROUND CHATOM.

Local storm report, Jan 27, 8:42 PM CST, 45 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
840 PM CST THUR JAN 27 1994

TIME             EVENT
740 PM           WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                 A FEW TREES DOWN AROUND CHATOM.

Special weather statement, Jan 27, 8:44 PM CST, 43 minutes before

FLZ001>010-012-280330-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
830 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT ALONG THE GULF COAST UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ARE
INCLUDED IN THIS TORNADO WATCH...

AT 830 PM CST...RADAR WAS DETECTING TWO LINES OF STRONG SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. ONE LINE EXTENDED FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER NORTHEAST TO CLARKE COUNTY OF ALABAMA. THE SECOND LINE MERGES WITH
THE FIRST FROM CLARKE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TOWARDS NEW ORLEANS. THESE LINES
WERE MOVING EAST TOWARDS THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE ALREADY OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE
PASSAG0E OF THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE WINDS TO INCREASE PROBABLY CAUSING
PROBLEMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 7:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	53 min
Jan 27, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	63 min
Jan 27, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	58 min
Jan 27, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	63 min
Jan 27, 8:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dallas	58 min
Jan 27, 9:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	66 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.