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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 9:07 PM CST for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 68 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, 9:07 PM CST (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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, 9:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Warrington, FL |
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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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.
354 WUUS1 KMOB 250308 RRA SVRMOB FLC033-250415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 907 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 905 PM MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING OUT OF BALDWIN COUNTY AND INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA BETWEEN BARRNEAU PARK AND WALNUT HILL. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS FROM LARGE HAIL. 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, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 69 min |
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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.