Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 2:20 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 994 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 KMGM 051924 RRA SVRMGM ALC109-052015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 220 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...PIKE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PIKE COUNTY...15 MILES SOUTH OF TROY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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 5, 1:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANT ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUxTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:43 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...| SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:56 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Coffee | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 58 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.