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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 1996Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 1996, 6:52 PM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 1996, 6:52 PM CST (00:52 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 1996, 8:00 PM CST
In force
68 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 00:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -326 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-326 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 270051
TORMOB
ALC025-270200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
652 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CLARKE COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF
GAINESTOWN IN FAR SOUTHEAST CLARKE COUNTY. THE TORNADO SHOULD RE-ENTER
MONROE COUNTY AND PASS THROUGH GOSPORT AND CLAIBORNE 730 PM. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 6:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMonroe, Wilcox66 min
Jan 26, 6:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke62 min
Jan 26, 6:26 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBClarke34 min
Jan 26, 6:29 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin31 min
Jan 26, 6:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington58 min
Jan 26, 6:38 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBMonroe67 min
Jan 26, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMonroe, Wilcox65 min
Jan 26, 9:20 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMonroe6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.