Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 245 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996 12Z ETA SHOWS LITTLE IF ANY UVV OVR NXT 24-36 HRS. NXT AREA OF SIGNIF PVA IS WITH SYS OVR SW US. HI PRES DOESN'T MOV MUCH ACRS SE US EITHER. SO WNDS WIL REMAIN SLY. WITH SUBSIDCE ALFT ONLY CLDS WE'LL SEE WILLBE LOW CLDS AND FG AT NGT. VIS SAT IMGRY CONTS TO SHW HI PRES OVR GLFMEX. TRWS ARE CURR FIRING UP OVER NW FL AND CSTL AL. TRWS SHUD DIE DOWN AFTR SUNSET. HI PRES AT H8 THRU H5 SHUD KP CONVECT TO A MIN THRU WEEKEND. NGM TEMPS LUK GUD. (1) 70/93/71/92 -1-1 (2) 71/91/70/91 -1-1 BFO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 63 min |
| May 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 54 min |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 62 min |
| May 24, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 42 min |
| May 24, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| May 24, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.