Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 11:41 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 79 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
- Jun 5, 1998, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1998, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Countywide, AL | A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the county between 1050 pm and 1205 am. Trees and power lines were blown down throughout the county. Most of the damage was in the north part of the county and around the regional airport. The National Weather Ser |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2997 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
814 WUUS1 KMOB 060440 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-060600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1141 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1141 PM CDT... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WILL ENTER NORTHEST MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA BY 1145 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORM LINE WILL RAPIDLY MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY IN A NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ORIENTATION. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LINE WILL EXTEND FROM MOUNT VERNON TO CHUNCHULA TO WILMER TO WADE MISSISSIPI BY 1220 AM CDT. 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 PLACE OF SAFETY... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 224 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THIS AFTERNOONS MCS MOVING THRU CNTRL MS ALONG WHAT APPEARS TO AN OLD OUTFLOW BNDRY. NOT SURE THAT THIS COMPLEX WILL AFFECT THE IMMEDIATE COAST BUT WILL NEED TO LEAVE IN SOME POPS FOR THIS EVENING...HIGHER OVER NRN COUNTIES. CAPES ARND 2500 J/KG AND RAPID MOVEMENT OF LINE CUD PRODUCE SFC WINDS NEAR SVR THRESHOLD YET THIS AFTERNOON. ETA SHOWS COMPLEX DISSIPATING RAPIDLY AFTER SS. NEAR ZONAL FLOW TO PUSH H7 TROFS RAPIDLY ACRS FA NEXT 24 HOUS IN ADVANCE OF SLOW MOVING SFC FRONT. WEAK TROF OVER FA ARND 06Z TONIGHT WITH A SLIGHTLY STRONGER TROF ARND 12Z SAT. SVR WX NOT EXPECTED AFTER THIS AFTERNOON WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEAT AND WITH WEAK SHEAR AND LOWER CAPES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS CUD BEGIN TO BE A PROBLEM SAT MORNING BUT FFG VALUES RELATIVETLY HIGH. FRONT TO BE ALONG COAST NEAR SS SAT WITH COOLER AIR FOLLOWING SAT NIGHT AND SUN. MARINE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE SW WINDS NEAR SCEC LEVELS TONIGHT BECMG MORE WESTERLY DURING THE DAY AND NW OVER THE NEAR SHORE WATERS AFTER SUNSET SATURDAY. SCT TRW/RW THIS EVENING WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS TOWARD SUNRISE. MOB 75/86/65/85 4620 PNS 77/86/66/86 4620 DTS 78/85/71/86 3620 EVR 73/86/64/83 5610 11
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
ALZ051>055-MSZ067-075-076-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 714 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...CHOCTAW... CLARKE... MONROE... WASHINGTON... WILCOX IN MISSISSIPPI ...GREENE... PERRY... WAYNE AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MOBILE...NORTHERN BALDWIN...CLARKE...AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WHICH HAVE WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THESE STORMS WILL PROGESS SLOWLY EASTWARD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR BUTLER... CRENSHAW... COVINGTON... CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF SW AL.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
ALZ051>055-MSZ067-075-076-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 714 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...CHOCTAW... CLARKE... MONROE... WASHINGTON... WILCOX IN MISSISSIPPI ...GREENE... PERRY... WAYNE AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MOBILE...NORTHERN BALDWIN...CLARKE...AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WHICH HAVE WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THESE STORMS WILL PROGESS SLOWLY EASTWARD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR BUTLER... CRENSHAW... COVINGTON... CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF SW AL.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
ALZ056>060-060130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...BUTLER... CONECUH... COVINGTON... CRENSHAW... ESCAMBIA AT 807 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD ENDED OVER THESE COUNTIES...THUS BRINGING AN END TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY ADVANCING INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA LATER TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
ALZ056>060-060130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...BUTLER... CONECUH... COVINGTON... CRENSHAW... ESCAMBIA AT 807 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD ENDED OVER THESE COUNTIES...THUS BRINGING AN END TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY ADVANCING INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA LATER TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
827 PM CDT FRI JUN 05 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM LEAKESVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98 GREENE 5 OR MORE TREES DOWN IN
LEAKESVILLE AND VICINITYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 78 min |
| Jun 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 68 min |
| Jun 6, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 68 min |
| Jun 6, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 69 min |
| Jun 6, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 69 min |
| Jun 6, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 94 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.