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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL

June 10, 1994Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 8:18 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1994, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 110120 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC099-110215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
818 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF FRISCO CITY
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 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.
 
 
 


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, Jun 10, 7:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-110110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
706 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994

AT 700 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR
CRESTVIEW FLORIDA TO BREWTON ALABAMA THEN NORTHWEST ACROSS
CLARKE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES TO NEAR MERIDIAN. THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 20 MPH.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:50 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-110130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
735 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994

AT 730 PM...A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG AND LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER
THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF OKALOOSA AND WALTON COUNTIES AND THE WESTERN
SECTIONS OF HOLMES COUNTY IN FLORIDA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF
RAIN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THERE IS A SMALL POSSIBLITY OF HAIL WITH
THESE STORMS.

SCATTERED VERY LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
ESPECIALLY OVER CLARKE...SOUTHERN MONROE...AND NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA
COUNTIES. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE OVER THE
NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PANAHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. LIGHT RAIN WAS
WIDESPREAD OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia56 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.