Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1997, 2:14 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 5, 1997, 2:14 PM CST (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1997, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Camden, AL | A SKYWARN spotter reported wind gusts of 60 mph just northwest of Camden. No damage was observed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 052012 RRA SVRMOB ALC131-052100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 214 PM CST SAT APR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...WILCOX COUNTY AT 213 PM...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE,AL INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 71 min |
| Apr 5, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 66 min |
| Apr 5, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 2:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.