Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Mar 6, 1996, 7:48 PM CST (01:48 UTC)

Expired

Mar 6, 1996, 8:45 PM CST

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Clarke County, AL

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.

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.

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 070147 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC025-070245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
748 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CLARKE COUNTY
 
AT 746 PM...MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
PUSHING RAPIDLY EAST NORTHEAST OUT OF CHOCTAW COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN
CLARKE COUNTY.  THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF THOMASVILLE ANFULTON...PASSING JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE GROVE HILL COMMUNITY THROUGH
830 PM.  OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEHIND THIS LEADING
BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 845 PM.
 
...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST 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.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 6, 7:38 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
715 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996

ACTIVE WARNINGS AND WX ATTM WHICH WL CAUSE A NEED FOR A BRIEF UPDATE.
00Z SFC FRONT...LARGE SCALE TMP GRADIENT PUSHING INTO NRN MS AND NRN
LA AND SFC MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE ON THE INCR AS PER 00Z MAP
GRIDDED DATA.  COAST AREA HODOGRAPHS FROM 00Z RAOBS INDICATE MARGINAL
HELICITIES AND SR INFLOW AT 19-22 KNOTS.  ATMS IS PRIME FOR MORE SVR
THROUGH THE EVE WITH FRONTAL FORCING PUSHING INTO MOIST AND UNSTABLE
AIRMASS AS CAPES TO 1300+ J/KG AND LI'S TO -3. FRONT PUSHES THRU THE
RGN LATER THU MORNING WITH ARCTIC CHILL AND DRIER PATTERN SETTLING IN
WITH A VENGEANCE.   FCST HAS THIS TAKEN WELL IN HAND.       GJM

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