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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Mobile, AL

July 6, 1994Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 7:23 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1994, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 070023 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC097-070130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
723 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY
 
AT 722 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF
THE CITY OF MOBILE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ALONG
WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
 
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

Local storm report, Jul 6, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 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.

Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:17 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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

TIME (CDT)       EVENT
700 PM           BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA 911 REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
                 IN ELSANOR...IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY.
                 ALSO...PEA SIZE HAIL OCCURRED NEAR LOXLEY AROUND THE
                 SAME TIME.

Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:17 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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

TIME (CDT)       EVENT
700 PM           BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA 911 REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
                 IN ELSANOR...IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY.
                 ALSO...PEA SIZE HAIL OCCURRED NEAR LOXLEY AROUND THE
                 SAME TIME.

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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.