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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL

January 15, 1997Conecuh County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 15, 1997, 6:04 PM CST for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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 15, 1997, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jan 15, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Conecuh County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 15, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1997-01-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1997-01-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 490 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
490 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
732 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 160006 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC035-160100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
604 PM CST WED JAN 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CONECUH COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM...MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF
PETERMAN AND WILL PASS TO THE NORTH OF BOLES THROUGH 7 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHERd CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 15, 6:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw61 min
Jan 15, 6:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBButler, Conecuh57 min
Jan 15, 6:41 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBWashington64 min
Jan 15, 6:52 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBCrenshaw68 min
Jan 15, 7:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Monroe67 min
Jan 15, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin57 min
Jan 15, 9:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia44 min
Jan 15, 10:08 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBCovington67 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.