Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1988, 4:38 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 26, 1988, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1988, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Covington, 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 26, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES AND ALMOST ALL SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES... AT 300 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CLARK COUNTY ALABAMA AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTHWEST OF MOBILE AND EAST OF FAIRHOPE. IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR HURLEY IN JACKSON COUNTY AND NEAR HATTIESBURG. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOPE IN OTHER AREAS. IF YOU ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WITNESS HEAVY RAINFALL ...DO SO IN A SAFE STRUCTURE. THyE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee, Dale | 63 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.