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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Mobile, AL

January 24, 1997Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 9:29 PM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 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: Jan 24, 1997, 9:29 PM CST (03:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1997, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 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, 9:30 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Dauphin Is, AL
Jan 24, 10:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Orange Beach, AL	Dime size hail was reported around Orange Beach.

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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 250330 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC003-097-250430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
929 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY
 
AT 928 PM CST MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED HAIL PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE EXTREME SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MOBILE AND BALDWIN
COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DAUPHIN
ISLAND AND THE AREA SOUTH OF US 98 IN BALDWIN COUNTY WILL BE AFFECTED BY
THESE STORMS THROUGH 1030 PM.D
 
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, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	63 min
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, 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.