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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL

March 26, 1988Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 1988, 6:30 AM CST for Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 1988, 6:30 AM CST (12:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 1988, 7:30 AM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, Mar 26, 12:52 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 1:43 AM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 5:50 AM CST, 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
535 AM CST SAT MAR 26 1988

AT 530 AM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA AND MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA...
NEAR FAIRHOPE ALABAMA...AND 40 TO 80 MILES NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST
OF MOBILE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR...POSSIBLE
SMALL HAIL...AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS THE ADDITIONAL ROUGH SEAS.
PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS
THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	68 min
Mar 26, 8:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.