Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 8:51 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1994, 8:51 AM CDT (13:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1994, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 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
- 1838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 031354 COR SVRMOB ALC097-031500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 851 AM CDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 850 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH INTO WESTERN MOBILE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR GRAND BAY...BAYOU LA BATRE...CODEN...AND IRVINGTON IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE DFOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE 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, May 3, 7:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
MSZ075>082-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL 706 AM CDT TUE MAY 3 1994 AT 705 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM SELLERS IN NORTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY TO NORTHEAST GREENE COUNTY NEAR KNOBTOWN. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THIS LINE WAS NOTED OVER CENTRAL STONE COUNTY NEAR TEN MILE AND WIGGINS. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 3, 7:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-031330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL 731 AM CDT TUE MAY 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 730 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI TO NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE OVER EASTERN STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEAST OF WIGGINS...AND OVER NORTHWEST GEORGE COUNTY BETWEEN BENNDALE AND MERRILL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH... AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF COASTAL MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH...THEY WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 60 min |
| May 3, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| May 3, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee | 42 min |
| May 3, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee | 55 min |
| May 3, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale | 55 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.