Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 3:12 PM CST for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 242115 SVRMGM ALC037-242215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 312 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...COOSA COUNTY WEATHER RADARS AT MONTGOMERY AND BIRMINGHAM SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN COOSA COUNTY MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM LIKELY HAS HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN S EVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 24, 2:30 PM CST, 42 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-242225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 225 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING... AT 225 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN WAYNESBORO AND HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EASTERLY AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS WERE NORTH OF EVERGREEN...ALSO MOVING EASTERLY AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVIION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 69 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.