Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Mar 8, 1998, 12:46 AM CST (06:46 UTC)

Expired

Mar 8, 1998, 1:50 AM CST

In force

64 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Conecuh County, AL

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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.

089 
WUUS1 KMOB 080645 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC035-080750-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1246 AM CST SUN MAR 8 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 150 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

   ...CONECUH COUNTY


AT 1245 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR AT MOBILE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BROOKLYN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
  BROOKLYN AT 1246 AM CST
  SHREVE AT 100 AM CST

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 7, 3:35 PM CST, 9 hours 11 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
300 PM CST SAT MAR 7 1998

AT 20Z SFC ANALYSIS OVR THE SE US SHOWED LOW PRES MOVING INTO NW LA
AND S AR AS A WARM FRNT EXTENDS SE TO THE LA/MS BORDER NEAR THE
CST...THEN E OVR THE GULF JUST S OF THE AL NWFL CST. ALONG THE FRNT
NUMEROUS TS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MAINLY OVR THE GULF SOMETIMES PASSING
NEAR AND OVR SOME COASTAL AREAS DUMPING UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR IN
SOME AREAS. TO THE W DEWPTS IN THE 70S HAVE BEGUN TO MOVE INLAND FROM
ABOUT THE MOUTH OF MS RVR TO TX/LA BORDER. LATEST GRIDDED DATA MAINLY
ETA SHOWS INCREASED INSTABILTY LATER TONIGHT AS DRYER MID LEVEL AIR
ADVECTS IN FROM THE W OVR SW AL SHORTLY BEFORE 06Z SHIFTING E OF THE
FA BEFORE 18Z SUN. WITH THIS AND INCREASED LLEVEL MOISTURE FROM THE S
BELIEVE CAT POPS WILL SUFFICE TONIGHT POSSIBLE BECOMING SEVERE FROM
06Z TO FROPA. WITH INCREASING VEERING AND PASSING SW'S NEAR THE WARM
FROM CANT RULE THE CHANCE OF TOR ALSO. AGAIN THE BEST CHANCE OF SVR
WEATHER WILL BEGIN LATE THIS EVE CONTINUING UNTIL FROPA. BELIEVE
FLASH FLOOD WATCH SHOULD ALSO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 12Z SUN
ESPECIALLY NEAR THE CST WITH EARLIER RAINS AND WHAT IS EXPECTED
TONIGHT. WRAP AROUND CLDS/RA ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE SUN EVE BEFORE
CLEARING OUT MON. WILL STAY CLOSE TO CURRENT TEMPS.

OVR THE COASTAL WATERS BELIEVE SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL BEGIN TONIGHT AS
SYSTEM TO THE N BEGINS TO MOVE INTO THE CENTRL MS VAL. BELIEVE STRONG
WESTERLY FLOW WILL HOLD THROUGH SUN NIGHT AND MON BEFORE SHIFTING NW
MON EVE.

MOB 60/70/46/60 +610  PNS 61/69/48/61 +710
DTS 60/71/52/62 +810  EVR 62/70/49/57 +610 32

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.