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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 18, 1996, 4:57 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 18, 1996, 4:57 PM CST (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1996, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 5:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Deer Park, 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 182257 TORMOB ALC129-MSC041-190000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 457 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...GREENE COUNTY AT 455 PM...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF LEAKESVILLE. THE STROM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY BY 515 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURD Y FURNITURE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 58 min |
| Mar 18, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 67 min |
| Mar 18, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 25 min |
| Mar 18, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 38 min |
| Mar 18, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 58 min |
| Mar 18, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 58 min |
| Mar 18, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.