Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 1996, 1:53 PM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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, 1:53 PM CST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1996, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 2:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Thomasville, 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 261951 TORMOB ALC025-262045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 153 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CLARKE COUNTY AT 150 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN MOBILE ALABAMA INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHEAST OF COFFEEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARDS THE TOWN OF THOMASVILLE. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITUNRE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 56 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.