Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Mar 8, 1998, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)

Expired

Mar 8, 1998, 5:00 AM CST

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Covington County, AL

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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.

977 
WUUS1 KMOB 080959 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC039-081100-

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


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA

   ...COVINGTON COUNTY


AT 357 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR AT MOBILE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDALUSIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
  ANDALUSIA AT 400 AM CST
  OPP   AT 410 AM CST
  ROSE HILL AT 415 AM CST



A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 8, 3:18 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
318 AM CST SUN MAR 8 1998

00Z NGM DATA A WELCOME SIGHT FOR THIS FORECAST. H5 LOW MOVES NE TO NE
AR WITH SFC LOW LIFTING TO WRN KY BY 00Z MON. COLD FRONT SEEN IN
CURRENT SFC ANAL PUSHING OFF THE TX COAST AND SOON TO ENTER WRN MS.
KMOB LOOP SHOWS SQUALL LINE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ADVANCING EWD...SO
WILL KEEP FFW TODAY FOR NW FL AND AL COUNTIES GENERALLY EAST OF
INTERSTATE 65...AND WILL LIKELY DROP THIS LATER THIS MORNING AS LL
JET SHIFTS FURTHER EAST. WV SAT LOOP SHOWS PROMINENT DRY SLOT
ADVANCING RAPIDLY NEWD INTO TN/KY AND LESS QUICKLY INTO AL IN WAKE OF
SQUALL LINE.  NGM PROGS DEEP DRY AIR TO CONTINUE ADVECTING INTO CWA
THROUGH TODAY. EXPECT COLD FRONT TO DECELERATE TODAY AS SFC LOW LIFTS
NE WHICH PUT EXPECTED FROPA BY MIDDAY FOR WRN CWA AND EXIT ERN CWA
DURING THE MID AFT HOURS. PER COORD WITH BHM/SPC...THINKING IS THAT
SUFFICIENT LL MOISTURE WILL BE AVAILABLE WITH FRONT TO INITIATE
THUNDERSTORMS.  CONSIDERING COOL AND DEEP DRY AIR ALOFT AND STRONG
DYNAMICS ADVANCING INTO CWA THIS AFT...WILL KEEP SVR WORDING IN ZONES
FOR TODAY DESPITE ONLY MILD LL SHEAR. DRY CONDITIONS FINALLY ARRIVE
FOR TONIGHT AND SUN.

OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...HAVE ACTUALLY ATTAINED GALE CONDITIONS AT
DPI...BUT WINDS WILL SUBSIDE IN NEXT FEW HOURS AS SQUALL LINE
ADVANCES SLOWLY EASTWARD. WINDS ELSEWHERE WILL REMAIN IN SCA RANGE
THROUGH MON AS COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH TODAY SWITCHING WINDS TO THE
W AND THEN TO THE NW FOR TONIGHT.

MOB 72/43/56/33 6100  PNS 73/45/58/35 7100
DTS 70/48/61/38 +100  EVR 71/43/52/29 7100 29

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.