Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Mar 6, 1996, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)

Expired

Mar 6, 1996, 7:00 PM CST

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Choctaw County, AL

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KMOB 062355 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC023-070100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
557 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF MILLRY.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. GOLBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 537
IN MILLRY...COPELAND AND RED CREEK. THIS STORM WWAS MOVING TOWARD SILAS
AND BOLLINGER.
 
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.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 
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NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 6, 2:01 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR 2ND POPS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
200 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996

TRW/RW ACRS W FL PNHDL SHUD BE OUT OF CWA BY 3 PM NOT MUCH HAPPENING
IN WW #59 AS OF YET. POOR MANS PCGRIDDS(ADAP) HAS LOWEST LIS AND NO
CAP FROM PNHDL TO N MS SO CUD STILL SEE SOME RAPID DEVLPMT THIS AREA
BEFORE MAIN UPPER TROF APPROACHES TONIGHT. LCLY BEST CHANCE FOR SVR
SHUD BE BETWEEN 03Z AND 09Z...LTL LATER TO THE EAST. SFC LOW XPCTD TO
TRACK ACRS CEN MS AND AL AND BEST CHC FOR SVR THERE WHERE SHEAR AND
MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS BEST...ALSO WHERE SPC HAS MDT RISK TONIGHT.
SUSPECT THAT A NEW WATCH WILL BE ISSUED LATER THIS EVE AS LLJ
ENHANCES WAA AND SPEED SHEAR ACRS FA...ALTHOUGH PCGRIDDS NOT SHOWING
MUCH LOW LEVEL WAA NOR COLD AIR ALFT UNTIL AFTER FROPA. FROPA SHUD BE
ARND 12Z AT MOB 14Z PNS HIGHS WILL BE ERLY BUT WARMER THAN NGM/FAN
SHOW. BEEN ISSUING SPS FOR COMING COLD BLAST AS A LOT OF GARDENS AND
PLANTS BEEN SET OUT AND NURSERIES HAVE A LOT OF THEIR STOCK(AZALEAS)
BUDDING AND ALMOST READY FOR SHIPMENT. (1)65/65/32/48 6600
(2)65/68/33/50 6600 DF

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.