Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Apr 13, 1996, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)

Expired

Apr 13, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Crenshaw County, AL

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 
TTAA00 KMOB 131902 COR
SVRMOB
ALC041-132000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
201 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH ALABAMA

   ...CRENSHAW COUNTY

AT 155 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS ENTERING CRENSHAW COUNTY FROM THE WEST. THE STORM
WILL PASS NEAR HONORAVILLE AND CONTINUE MOVING EAST TOWARDS LUVERNE AND
PETREY THROUGH 3 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE
MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.
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 D@RIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

...CORRECTED FOR 3AM TO 3 PM IN 1ST PARA...

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 13, 3:13 AM CDT, 10 hours 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
309 AM CDT SAT APR 13 1996

LATEST SFC MAP AND MAP FILE DATA SHOW WELL DEFINED TROF AXIS STRETCHING
FROM E TX TO S MS NEAR HIGH THETA AXIS STRETCHING E W OVR THE GULF STATES.
DEWPTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE TROF HAVE CLIMBED TO THE MID 60S. CURRENT
RADAR LOOPS FROM KLIX AND KJAN SHOW TRWS DEVELOPING INTO SOLID LINES
STRETCHING FROM N TO S.  LATEST GRIDDED DATA SHOWS WELL DEFINED S/W
MOVING INTO S MS AND CNTRL AL THROUGH 00Z SUN WITH GOOD MOISTURE FLUX
CONVERGENCE NEAR AXIS OF INSTABILTY AS S/W MOVES INTO AL.  EXPECT DRYER AIR
ALOFT TO BEGIN TO AVECT E OVR MUCH OF SW AL AND NW FL LATR TODAY. AS A RESULT
CAPE VALUES TO NEAR 2000 J/KG AND LI`S NEAR -5 CAN BE EXPECTED THRU 00Z.
LOW LEVL INFLOW WAS ALSO PROGGED TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY ALLOWING
AVAILABLE MOISTURE FOR TRWS TO DEV THRU THIS EVENING.  TO THE WEST REPORTS
OF DAMAGING WINDS NEAR AND BEHIND TRWS COULD SUGGEST DRYER AIR ALOFT HAS BEGUN
TO PUSH E INTO THE LOWER MS VALLEY MOVING INTO AL AND FL LATER TODAY.  FOR
THIS MORNING EXPECT RWS AND TRWS TO BECOME SLIGHTLY MODIFIED RESULTING
IN HEAVY RAINFALL AMMOUNTS...MAINLY INLAND AWAY FROM THE CST.  WITH
THIS WOULD LIKE TO REWORD CURRENT FCST IN NORTHERN CO`S TO LIKELY AND
POSSIBLY MENTION STRONG OR SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  POPS MAY BE
A CATEGORY TO LOW ALSO MAINLY FOR THE EVENING FOR MOST OF THE FA.
WILL STAY CLOSE TO LATEST TEMPS AND KEEP A LOW POP THRU THE PEzRIOD
AS NEXT ROUND BEGINS MAINLY TO THE NW BY MON 00Z.
(1) 77/65/82/62 5322  (2)  (2) 74/65/79/63

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.