Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 3:43 PM CDT for Bullock County, Crenshaw County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Pike County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 57 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 57 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, 39 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, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 52 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.