Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1994, 2:01 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama; Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1994, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1994, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mobile County, AL, Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMOB 041903 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-MSC059-042000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 201 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 155 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS IN JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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.
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, Jul 4, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-041830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1240 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 AT 1230 PM CDT...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM PENSACOLA EAST OVER 100 MILES TO VERNON IN WASHINGTON COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE DUMPING HEAVY RAINS WHICH CAUSE STREET AND LOW AREA FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT CROSS ROADS THAT ARE UNDER WATER. SHOWtERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT MISSISSIPPI...SOME INDICATED HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENTS ARE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Barbour, Henry | 4 hr |
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.