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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 8, 1997Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1997, 1:30 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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 8, 1997, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1997, 2:15 AM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1997-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1997-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 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
456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 080727 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC097-080815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
130 AM CST WED JAN 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY
 
AT 125 AM MOBILE DOPPLER SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JACKSON
COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND
WILL BE MOVING INTO MOBILE COUNTY NORTH OF GRAND BAY JUST AFTER 130 AM.
PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL. THIS STORM
WILL TRACK ALONG INTERSTATE 10 TOWARD TILLMANS CORNER
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 11:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile68 min
Jan 8, 12:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington44 min
Jan 8, 2:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMonroe, Wilcox59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.