Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 1996, 3:46 PM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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
- Feb 19, 1996, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 59 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 22:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Jackson, 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 192145 TORMOB ALC025-192245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 346 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CLARKE COUNTY AT 345 PM CST MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LEROY IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF JACKSON. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SPUCH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 69 min |
| Feb 19, 3:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 57 min |
| Feb 19, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 55 min |
| Feb 19, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 37 min |
| Feb 19, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Feb 19, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Feb 19, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.