Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 3:46 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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
- May 28, 1997, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- 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 20:48 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
169 WUUS1 KMOB 282047 RRA SVRMOB ALC025-282145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 346 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CLARKE COUNTY AT 344 PM...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COFFEVILLE ALABAMA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH AND WILL PASS NORTH OF GROVE HILL. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 75 min |
| May 27, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 71 min |
| May 27, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 68 min |
| May 28, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 58 min |
| May 28, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 59 min |
| May 28, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| May 28, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 63 min |
| May 28, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 min |
| May 28, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 68 min |
| May 28, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 66 min |
| May 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 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.