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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 6:27 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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, 6:27 PM CST (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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, 6:50 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Robertsdale, 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, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 250028 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-250130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 627 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY AT 625 PM...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE, AL INIDCATED A PERSISTENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF ROBERSTDALE AND WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS CURRRENT MOTION WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO THE EAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF SEMINOLE. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE WEST PORTION OF BALDWIN COUNTY AND WILL CONTINUE PROCEEDING EASTWARD DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE SECONDARY STORMS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFEC T 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, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Jan 24, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 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.