Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 3:02 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 TTAA00 KMOB 052003 SVRMOB ALC003-053-052100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 302 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 300 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BALDWIN AND WESTERN ESCAMBIA OF ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 14 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER. IN ADDITION VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. 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 WI0NDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 1 hour 21 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, 1 hour 19 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, 1 hour 6 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, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Coffee | 57 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.