Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1994, 4:22 PM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1994, 4:22 PM CST (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1994, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 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 KMGM 092223 SVRMGM ALC101-092330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 422 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR AT EAST MACON COUNTY SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS JUST SOUTH OF DANNELLY FIELD. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. 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
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 226 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 600 PM CST... AT 225 PM CST...MOBILE WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF STRONG RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR THE CHANDELEUR ISLANDS ...NORTHEAST ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND TO NEAR PASCAGOULA...ACROSS MOBILE COUNTY AND INTO NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF PASCAGOULA...TO MOBILE AND INTO NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY. HEAVY RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND MOBILE BAY. ALL MARINE INTEREST ARE ADVISED TO BE ON ALERT FOR THESE DANGEROUS STORMS AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF POSSIBLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH BALDWIN...ESCAMBIA AND CONECUH COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINXGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-092135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 600 PM CST. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH...ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...HOLMES AND WASHINGTON. AT 230 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANAHANDLE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS FROM EAST OF MONTGOMERY TO PENSACOLA THEN ACROSS THE GULF TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE MOBILE RIVER THEN ACROSS MOBILE BAY TO EAST OF THE CHANDELEUR ISLANDS. SHOWERS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE PENSACOLA...CRESTVIEW AND FORT WALTON BEACH AREAS BETWEEN 240 AND 345 PM CST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY AREA BETWEEN 300 AND 400 PM. RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA CAN EXPECT GUSTY...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS... HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSING TEMPORARY FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVIjNG EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 3:44 PM CST, 38 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-092235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 600 PM CST. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH...ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...HOLMES AND WASHINGTON. AT 330 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM NEAR EVERGREEN ALABAMA ACROSS MCDAVID FLORIDA TO FOLEY THEN OFFSHORE TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF DAUPHIN ISLAND. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA JUST WEST OF BREWTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL... GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS CAUSING TEMPORARY FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST FLORIDA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA...NORTH>WEST FLORIDA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS PRECIPITATION WAS FROM EAST OF MONTGOMERY TO CRESTVIEW TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
Local storm report, Mar 9, 3:57 PM CST, 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
357 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994
TIME EVENT
APPROX
335 PM CST 50 MPH WINDS ESTIMATED AT MIDDLETON FIELD AIRPORT
IN EVERGREEN ALABAMA. A SINGLE TREE WAS REPORTED
DOWN NEAR MIDDLETON FIELD ON US HIGHWAY 84. REPORT
RELAYED BY EVERGREEN STATE TROOPER POST IN EVERGREEN.
dSpecial weather statement, Mar 9, 3:57 PM CST, 25 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 356 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH
Local storm report, Mar 9, 4:13 PM CST, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
412 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994
TIME EVENT
APPROX
330 PM CST 64 MPH WIND GUST WAS RECORDED AT AN AUTOMATED WEATHER
STATION AT MIDDLETON FIELD AIRPORT IN EVERGREEN ALABAMA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 50 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.