Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1994, 7:24 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1994, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 030025 RRA SVRMGM ALC081-030115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 724 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST ALABAMA ...LEE COUNTY AT 7:25 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN LEE COUNTY...NORTH OF OPELIKA MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. STORM REPORTS IN THE AREA INCLUDED DOWNED TREES AND SLIGHT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT TUE AUG 02 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTH ALABAMA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... SOUTH ALABAMA...AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER BAY... WASHINGTON...AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF FLORIDA AND SPREADING INTO SOUTH- EAST ALABAMA...AND OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA IN ESCAMBIA...MONROE AND CLARKE COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT TUE AUG 02 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTH ALABAMA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... SOUTH ALABAMA...AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER BAY... WASHINGTON...AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF FLORIDA AND SPREADING INTO SOUTH- EAST ALABAMA...AND OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA IN ESCAMBIA...MONROE AND CLARKE COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-022115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 310 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 1994 ...HEAVY RAINSHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 308 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHED FROM CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTY...SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CLARKE...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR NATCHEZ AND RILEY IN NORTH MONROE COUNTY AND EVERGREEN IN NORTH CONECUH COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. ALL PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK A STRONG SHELTER AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE THREAT HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 54 min |
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.