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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Mobile, AL

October 25, 1997Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 6:24 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
Oct 25, 1997, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 25, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 12:00Z on 1997-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1546 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1997-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
4.8

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The text

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

324 
WUUS1 KMOB 252328 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC131-260015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
624 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 615 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
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 WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 9:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke56 min
Oct 25, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox63 min
Oct 25, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBButler40 min
Oct 25, 1:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBCrenshaw61 min
Oct 25, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Crenshaw63 min
Oct 25, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw67 min
Oct 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke60 min
Oct 25, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox56 min
Oct 25, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMobile69 min
Oct 25, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin63 min
Oct 25, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMobile36 min
Oct 25, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.