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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

January 24, 1997Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 8:05 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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: Jan 24, 1997, 8:05 AM CST (14:05 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1997, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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
Jan 24, 8:40 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Tillmans Corner, AL

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
Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 330 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 241406 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC097-241500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
805 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MOBILE COUNTY
 
AT 805 AM...MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY. THIS LINE WILL
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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
Jan 24, 5:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	58 min
Jan 24, 5:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	69 min
Jan 24, 5:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	55 min
Jan 24, 6:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	58 min
Jan 24, 6:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	59 min
Jan 24, 6:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	56 min
Jan 24, 6:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	54 min
Jan 24, 7:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	55 min
Jan 24, 7:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	55 min
Jan 24, 8:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	64 min
Jan 24, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	68 min
Jan 24, 9:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	65 min
Jan 24, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	64 min
Jan 24, 5:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	56 min
Jan 24, 5:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	55 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.