Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1997, 8:18 PM CDT for Covington County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 22, 1997, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Luverne, AL | Several trees and power lines were blown down just north of Luverne. One of the trees happened to fall onto a house and caused major damage to the home. A trailer was also turned over. |
| Apr 22, 8:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Huckaville, AL | Several trees and power lines were blown down along State Highway 55 near Huckaville (which is northwest of Florala). |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 68 min |
| Apr 22, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 68 min |
| Apr 22, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 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.