Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 KMGM 252027 RRA SVRMGM ALC101-252115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 323 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 325 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SELLERS MOVING TO THEE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 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 RAINS0 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 25, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-251945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 146 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1994 AT 135 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORM THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ALONG THE GULF COAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WWUS35KABE .4
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-251945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 146 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1994 AT 135 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORM THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ALONG THE GULF COAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WWUS35KABE .4
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:04 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 304 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE INLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 251 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL CLUSTERS AND SHORT LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE INLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WERE CENTERED OVER NORTHERN CONECUH COUNTY AND THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PORTION OF MONROE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MONROE...CLARKE...CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO MOVE INTO MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES LATER THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE AWARE THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE ACROSS YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND MAKE PLANS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IF ONE APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 66 min |
| Jul 25, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 68 min |
| Jul 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock, Crenshaw, Pike | 62 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.