Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 8:12 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 3385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMGM 100112 RRA SVRMGM ALC039-100215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 812 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...COVINGTON COUNTY AT 810 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF ANDALUSIA IN COVINGTON COUNTY...MOVING EAST 20 MPH. 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, Jun 9, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-100030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 626 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 620 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY AND NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. LATER THIS EVENING A GUST FRONT THAT IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOPE ALONG THIS FRONT. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:41 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-100140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 738 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 730 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BREWTON ALABAMA IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY TO CITRONELLE IN MOBILE COUNTY TO LUMBERTON IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN ESCAMBIA AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:54 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
754 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994
TIME EVENT
APPROX 739 CDT A TOP WAS BLOWN OFF OF A MOBILE HOME IN THE BEAUMONT
COMMUNITY OF PERRY COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. REPORTED
BY PERRY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFECT FOR PERRY COUNTY
UNTIL 845 PM CDT.Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:55 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
754 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994
TIME EVENT
APPROX 739 CDT A TOP WAS BLOWN OFF OF A MOBILE HOME IN THE BEAUMONT
COMMUNITY OF PERRY COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. REPORTED
BY PERRY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFECT FOR PERRY COUNTY
UNTIL 845 PM CDT.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.