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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 1996Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 3:49 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 26, 4:15 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Latham, 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

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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.

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: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 26, 2:33 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 2:33 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
230 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996

WX ACTIVE WITH TOR WATCH AND 88D LIGHTING UP BRIGHTER BY THE MINUTE
SO WILL BE BRIEF. WARM FRONT HAS PASSED TO THE NORTH OF CST IN
RESPONSE TO STRENGTHENING S/SERLY SFC GRADIENT AHEAD OF SFC FRONT
WHICH STRETCHES THRU CTRL AR/NW LA INTO ERN TX. SFC MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE HAS BEEN INCRNG AS DWPTS HAVE NOW REACHED MID 60S ACRS
FA. AS FRONT SLAMS INTO MOIST/UNSTABLE AIRMASS...WIDESPREAD
STG/POSSIBLY SVR TSTMS WILL BE THE RULE THAN THE XCPTN. VILS RUNNING
LOWER 40S HAVE BEEN PRODUCING HAIL IN SW MS DUE TO SVRL NAWAS RPTS
AND DO NOT SEE THIS ACTIVITY LETTING UP AS IT WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE
INTO CWA.  MODELS SWING FRONTAL SYSTEM THRU FA AROUND 03/06Z SAT WITH
WX CALMING DOWN AND COOLING OFF ATTM AS HI PRES FILTERS IN.
(1) 44/54/30/59 +100 (2) 48/58/34/60 +100  GJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	52 min
Jan 26, 2:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	62 min
Jan 26, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	49 min
Jan 26, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	64 min
Jan 26, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	63 min
Jan 26, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	56 min
Jan 26, 5:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	59 min
Jan 26, 5:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	68 min
Jan 26, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	55 min
Jan 26, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.