Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 4, 1988, 12:59 PM CST for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 1988, 12:59 PM CST (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 1988, 1:50 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geneva 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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, Nov 4, 7:19 AM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 715 AM CDT FRI NOV 4 1988 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... DENSE FOG HAS DEVELOPED OVER WEST MOBILE REDUCING VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO IN PLACES. PERSONS SHOULD EXPECT TO TAKE A LITTLE LONGER TO GET TO WORK THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS IN THE AREA...AND ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS 10 AND 65 ...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THIS DENSE FOG UNTIL AROUND 9 AM.
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 11:47 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1145 AM CST FRI NOV 4 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROMING OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AT 1140 AM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER NORTH WALTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF FLORALA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO GENEVA COUNTY ALABAMA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM ALONG WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE RESULTING IN WINDS OF AT LEAST 58 MILES AN HOUR...HAIL OF AT LEAST THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. YOU SHOULD TRY TO KEEP INFORMED OF THE CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF DANGEROUS WEATHER DEVELOPES AND WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 11:49 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1145 AM CST FRI NOV 4 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AT 1140 AM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER NORTH WALTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF FLORALA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO GENEVA COUNTY ALABAMA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM ALONG WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE RESULTING IN WINDS OF AT LEAST 58 MILES AN HOUR...HAIL OF AT LEAST THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. YOU SHOULD TRY TO KEEP INFORMED OF THE CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF DANGEROUS WEATHER DEVELOPES AND WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 12:32 PM CST, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1230 PM CST... ALTHOUGH THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA THE POSSIBILITY WILL REMAIN FOR OTHERS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1230 PM CST..SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.V..SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN ALONG THE STATE LINE NEAR THE CHOCTWAHATCHEE RIVER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Geneva | 55 min |
| Nov 4, 1:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Houston | 69 min |
| Nov 4, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.