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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 1988Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1988, 5:09 AM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1988, 5:09 AM CDT (10:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1988, 6:10 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Clarke County, AL

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 25, 5:15 AM CDTHail 0.75Clarke, AL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers, Coosa, Tallapoosa64 min
Apr 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers30 min
Apr 25, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes63 min
Apr 25, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery55 min
Apr 25, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox56 min
Apr 25, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMontgomery52 min
Apr 25, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMacon65 min
Apr 25, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBLee, Macon59 min
Apr 25, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock66 min
Apr 25, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1988Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.