Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1994, 2:57 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1994, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMOB 291959 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-292100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 257 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY AT 250 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF BAY MINETTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 29, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-291830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1240 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 AT 1230 PM CDT...NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE COASTS OF BAY AND GULF COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR MILTON AND CRESTVIEW IN THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY LITTLE AND DUMPING HEAVY RAIN. FLOODING OF LOW AREAS WILL BE A PROBLEM UNTIL RUNOFF OCCURS. LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE LARGE STORMS. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SIGHTED EARLIER IN THE PARKER AREA OF COASTAL BAY COUNTY. ADDITIONAL FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS MAY BE SIGHTED WHILE THE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN PROGESS.
Special weather statement, May 29, 2:01 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-291930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 200 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR WAHINGTON AND WALTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 145 PM CDT...NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRESENTLY LOCATED IN WASHINGTON AND WALTON COUNTIES. GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. PERSONS SHOULD NOT REMAIN OUT OF DOORS WHILE THESE STORM ARE IN PROGRESS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STATIONARY AND WILL CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 55 min |
| May 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 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.