Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Jun 20, 1998, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)

Expired

Jun 20, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT

In force

72 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Monroe County, AL

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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ALC099-202115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
303 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 302 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF BEATRICE OR 2 MILES EAST OF NADAWAH... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR... MOVING NORTHWEST 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF -
  NADAWAH BY 310 PM CDT

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 3:07 AM CDT, 11 hours 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
307 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM PREVIOUS DAYS CONVECTION AND
PASSAGE OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NOW LOCATED OFFSHORE WILL SERVE AS
INITIATING MECHANISMS TODAY.  MILD MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE WILL REMAIN
ESSENTIALLY STALLED ACROSS CWA THROUGH 00Z MONDAY AND IS WEAKLY
REFLECTED AT LOW LEVELS.  THINK THAT CHANCE POPS IN ZONES LOOK GOOD
FOR TODAY BUT WITH WIDELY SCATTERED POPS FOR THIS EVENING AS WELL.
H85 RIDGE MEANWHILE SLOWLY BUILDS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST U.S. THROUGH
00Z MONDAY AS MIDWEST SFC-H5 SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST.  DESPITE
BUILDING RIDGE...SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL
REMAIN TO SUPPORT SMALL CHANCE POPS.

OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...RIDGING BUILDS SLIGHTLY OVER THE NORTHERN
GULF THROUGH SUN.  WEST/SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 10/15 KNOTS WILL CONTINUE
WITH SEAS 2/3 FEET.

MOB 94/75/94/74 3221  PNS 95/76/94/75 3221
DTS 88/78/88/77 3221  EVR 95/74/95/73 3121 29

In the hours before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR
SOUTHWEST AL...NORTHWEST FL AND SOUTHEAST MS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1025 AM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

DAYTIME HEATING WILL ONCE AGAIN PRODUCE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS
THE REGION BY THE EARLY AFTERNOON.  SEVERAL COOL SPOTS LEFT BY THE
PREVIOUS DAYS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE TO INITIATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS.  THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH IN COVERAGE
AND INTENSITY DURING THE EVENING.

SOMEWHAT DRY AIR AT MID LEVELS IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALLOW FOR ANY
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND IT
IS POSSIBLE THAT A FEW STORMS WILL ATTAIN SEVERE LIMITS DURING THE
MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING HOURS.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMA PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED
THROUGH TONIGHT.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.