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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1994, 2:33 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 051936 TORMGM ALC031-052030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 233 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...COFFEE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A TORNADO OVER NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY...15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELBA. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 5, 1:41 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANT ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUxTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:43 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...| SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:56 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE DUMPING RAIN AT RATES HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE STANDING WATER IN LOCATIONS SUFFERING FROM POOR DRAINAGE. THE COMMUNITES OF MOLINO AND MCDAVID AND PARTS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR THERE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...DITCHES...AND VERY SMALL STREAMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 58 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.