Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1988, 11:38 AM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- May 24, 1988, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1988, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Dallas, 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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 241644 COR
SVRMGM
ALC047-241715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1138 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...DALLAS
AT 1137 PM CDT MONTGOMERY RADAR INDICATED A SERVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER EASTERN DALLAS COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 40 min |
| May 24, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 42 min |
| May 24, 12:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 67 min |
| May 24, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 51 min |
| May 24, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 62 min |
| May 24, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 59 min |
| May 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 60 min |
| May 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 30 min |
| May 24, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 22 min |
| May 24, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Houston | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.