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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 1996Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 6:09 PM CST for Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 1996, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1996, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 26, 6:50 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Jeddo, AL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 265 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -326 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 270008 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC131-099-270115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
609 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WILCOX COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 608 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN WILCOX AND CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST AL. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	62 min
Jan 26, 6:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	34 min
Jan 26, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	31 min
Jan 26, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	58 min
Jan 26, 6:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	67 min
Jan 26, 6:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	68 min
Jan 26, 7:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	65 min
Jan 26, 9:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Monroe	6 hr

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.