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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Mobile, AL

July 6, 1994Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 6:18 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1994, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1994, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 062319
SVRMOB
ALC003-070000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
618 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY
 
AT 615 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE
INTERSTATE 10-WILCOX ROAD EXIT. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTH AND HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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

Local storm report, Jul 6, 6:10 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
610 PM CDT WED JULY 6 1994

TIME (CDT)       EVENT
529 PM           MALCOLM...WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA.  TREES DOWNED
                 ACROSS ROAD AND RAILROAD TRACKS.  SOME STRUCTURAL
                 DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS.  POWER LINES DOWNED.  REPORT
                 RELAYED TO NWS BY WKRG TV5 AND WASHINGTON COUNTY
                 SHERIFFS OFFICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Montgomery	60 min
Jul 5, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Barbour, Henry	4 hr
Jul 6, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Barbour, Henry	4 hr
Jul 6, 5:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Coffee, Dale, Pike	3 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.