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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Mobile, AL

May 12, 1991Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1991, 6:17 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1991, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1991, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

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, May 12, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
ALZ013-015-122130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
240 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 1991

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

AT 235 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO CLARKE AND MONROE COUNTIES OF
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM EAST OF GROVE HILL OF CLARKE COUNTY TO
BEATRICE OF MONROE COUNTY ALABAMA.

RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL... CAUSING BRIEF STREET
AND URBAN TYPE FLOODING... GUSTY WINDS... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN OR
NEAR THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY TRACK SOUTHEAST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE
HOURS.
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ014-122345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
541 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 1991

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

AT 535 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS NORTHEAST GREENE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN
MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES OF ALABAMA.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH WHILE THE LINE IS SINKING SOUTHWARD
ABOUT 5 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS
GREENE INTO GEORGE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI AND MOBILE AND BALDWIN
COUNTIES OF ALABAMA.  RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY
WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.  IN ADDITION...THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADS AND POSE A HAZARD TO MOTORISTS.
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING...RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR
RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AFTER DARK.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBAutauga, Dallas67 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.