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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1998, 7:23 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 17, 1998, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Monroe County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Little River, AL | Quarter size hail was again reported near the community of Little River. |
| Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Uriah, AL | Golfball size hail was again reported in the south part of Monroe county, near Uriah. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 624 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
089 WFUS1 KMOB 180024 RRA TORMOB ALC003-099-180055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 723 PM CDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 755 PM CDT * AT 721 PM CDT... A NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO BETWEEN LITTLE RIVER AND TENSAW,AL. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TOWARDS URIAH,AL AND WILL ARRIVE BY 750 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Apr 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 61 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.