Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1994, 1:43 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1994, 1:43 AM CST (07:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1994, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 250742 SVRMOB ALC097-250830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 143 AM CST FRI MAR 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 140 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST GEORGE COUNTY AND MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY NEAR WILMER. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF WILMER WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES AND NORTH MOBILE AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. ALL RESIDENTS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE COVER FROM THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY PINSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, 10:38 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-250530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1035 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FRIDAY FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND FOR THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON... AT 1030 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES EAST OF MONTGOMERY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS BUTLER AND CONECUH COUNTIES AND TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBILE. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SPREADING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST TO NORTH OF ATMORE. ELSEWHERE...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDRSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAUSING SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:06 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-250600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1100 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON COUNTIES...UNTIL 200 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING... AT 1100 PM CST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA NORTHEAST ACROSS ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA AND INTO SOUTHERN CONECUH AND NORTH COVINGTON COUNTIES. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST TO NORTH OF BREWTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AND WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:37 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-250530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FRIDAY FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND FOR THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON... AT 1130 PM CST...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WAS OVER THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVY RAINS WERE SCATTERED OVER A NARROW BAND FROM NEAR MOBILE AND NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHWE"ST CORNER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND INTO PIKE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE WESTERN 75 MILES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:53 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-250430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL 1152 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 35 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT GULF COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 2 AM CST... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 1150 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH FOREST COUNTY ...JUST SOUTH OF HATTTIESBURG...NORTHEAST ACROSS PERRY AND GEORGE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND INTO NORTH MOBILE AND BALDWIN... SOUTH WASHINGTON...CLARKE AND MONROE COUNTIES AND THROUGH CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTY AND SOUTH GEORGE COUNTY OF MISSISSPPI AND IN SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY FROM NEAR FRUITDALE TO DEER PARK. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH CONECUH AND NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTIES FROM NEAR CASTLEBERRY TO BREWTON. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. ALL RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO 2OR THE LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 12:39 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-250730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 AM CST FRI MAR 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FRIDAY FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND FOR THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON... AT 1230 AM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE BORDER OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND ALABAMA AND WESTWARD TO MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRESENTLY OCCURRING IN ALABAMA BETWEEN DOTHAN AND ANDALUSIA...AND IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI NEAR HATTIESBURG. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AND NORTHEAST AROND 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:43 AM CST, 0 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-250830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 AM CST FRI MAR 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST FRIDAY FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON... AND BAY COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND FOR THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS. AT 130 AM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM COASTAL MISSISSIPPI EASTWARD ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE EASTERN EDGE OF MISSISSIPPI NEAR MOBILE ALABAMA...AND SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA JUST OVER THE FLORIDA STATE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSNTY WINDS.. HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOVEMENTS WERE EASTERLY 40 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 55 min |
| Mar 24, 10:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Macon | 54 min |
| Mar 25, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 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.