Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1991, 3:20 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1991, 3:20 AM CDT (08:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1991, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 250823 TORMOB ALC003-097-MSC047-059-250915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 320 AM CDT THU APR 25 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY...SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 315 AM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH OF BAY ST LOUIS MISSISSIPPI AND A CLUSTER OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF HORN ISLAND TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF DAUPHIN ISLAND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS WATERSPOUTS AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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, Apr 25, 2:48 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
MSZ014-013-250900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 145 AM CDT THU APR 25 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 140 AM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISINA AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAILL. THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA...OBSERVE SAFETY RULES IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
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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.