Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1988, 8:02 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1988, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1988, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMOB 280104
TORMOB
ALC003-280130-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
802 PM CDT WED JUL 27 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
...SOUTHERN BALDWIN
AT 750 PM THE BALDWIN COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
3 TO 4 MILES WEST OF GULF SHORES ALABAMA.
MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SMALL THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE WEST END OF
LITTLE LAGOON THAT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 27, 3:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 327 PM CDT WED JUL 27 1988 AT 315 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR STOCKTON ALABAMA TO MOBILE TO PASCAGOLUA MISSISSIPPI. NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL...AND STREET FLOODING HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN MOBILE. THESE STORMS ARE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. PEOPLE IN THE MOBILE...AND BALDWIN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL FROM THESE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.