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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL

April 22, 1997Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1997, 11:59 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1997, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1997, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 46 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 05:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 22, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 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.

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: 2665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 7.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 230459 RRA
TORMOB
ALC003-230545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1159 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY
 
 
 
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO WHICH WILL MOVE
ONSHORE NEAR ORANGE BEACH BY 1205 AM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	68 min
Apr 22, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	55 min
Apr 22, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	57 min
Apr 22, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	57 min
Apr 22, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	57 min
Apr 22, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke	59 min
Apr 22, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	68 min
Apr 22, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	61 min
Apr 22, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	67 min
Apr 22, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	66 min
Apr 22, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	58 min
Apr 22, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	61 min
Apr 22, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.