Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 1997, 7:23 PM CST for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Nov 21, 1997, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 1997, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 7:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Robinsonville, AL | High winds in the Robinsonville community picked up a home and moved it from its foundation. The winds also blew part of the roof from the home. . No one was injured. |
| Nov 21, 8:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Little Rock, AL | High winds caused minor damage to three homes in the Little Rock community. A barn and four silos were also damaged by the winds. Several trees and power lines were also blown down. No injures were reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 220122 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-053-220230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 723 PM CST FRI NOV 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 723 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY BETWEEN RABUN AND STOCKTON...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING THE NEAR TOWNS OR PERIDO...ATMORE AND HUXFORD DURING THE NEXT HOUR. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Nov 21, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Nov 21, 9:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 48 min |
| Nov 21, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 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.