Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1994, 5:50 PM CDT for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1994, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elmore County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 292252 RRA SVRMGM ALC051-085-292345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 550 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...ELMORE COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN LOWNDES COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED IN BERKSVILLE... IN NORTHEAST LOWNDES COUNTY ALABAMA...MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. GOLFBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST ELMORE COUNTY ALABAMA SHORTLY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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, 5 hours 5 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, 3 hours 49 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.
Special weather statement, May 29, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
ALZ061>064-292230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE, AL 437 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER BALDWIN COUNTY... AT 435 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY NEAR LOXLEY AND ROBERTSDALE. ALTHOUGH NOT AT SEVERE LEVELS...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THE AFTERNOON WEATHER...MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 63 min |
| May 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 55 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.