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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL

May 29, 1994Baldwin County, Alabama

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 552 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBElmore55 min
May 29, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes55 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.