Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 9:04 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1994, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1082 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -154 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 KMOB 260206 RRA SVRMOB ALC025-260300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 904 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY AT 845 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GROVE HILL NEAR THE TOWN OF WINN. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. IT WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE COMMUNITIES OF ALLEN...WALKER SPRINGS AND ALMA. 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 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
MSZ075>082-ALZ052>56-61>64-LAZ501-222035 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 340 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 AT 335 PM...MOBILE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST PEARL RIVER COUNTY AND EXTENDING INTO SOUTH FOREST AND PERRY COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR PASCAGOULA...EAST TO NEAR DAUPHIN ISLAND AND IN CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY NEAR FLOMATON AND EAST BREWTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING ENE AT 15 MPH AND CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE VERY STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. ALL RESIDENTOON...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE. HIGH IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S. WIND SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 50 PERCENT. .TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVzERE THIS EVENING. LOW 65 TO 70. WIND SOUTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH. RAIN CHANCE 50 PERCENT. .SUNDAY...BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. WIND SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 40 PERCENT.
Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
555 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994
TIME EVENT
830AM CDT CD OFFICE REPORTS TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLRORIDA. TORNADO WAS IN ORANGE
HILL AREA NEAR GILBERT`S MILL ROAD...APPROX 15 MILES
EAST SOUTHEAST OF CHIPLEY FLORIDA. NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN. ONE HOUSE HAD ROOF OFF.Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
555 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994
TIME EVENT
830AM CDT CD OFFICE REPORTS TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLRORIDA. TORNADO WAS IN ORANGE
HILL AREA NEAR GILBERT`S MILL ROAD...APPROX 15 MILES
EAST SOUTHEAST OF CHIPLEY FLORIDA. NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN. ONE HOUSE HAD ROOF OFF.
:The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 52 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.