Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 56 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.