Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 17, 1998, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Andalusia, AL | Golfball size hail was reported in Andalusia. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
179 WFUS1 KMOB 180045 RRA TORMOB ALC039-180145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 744 PM CDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 740 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED BETWEEN BREWTON AND DIXIE,AL. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO NEAR DIXIE BY 8 PM CDT AND INTO SOUTH-CENTRAL COVINGTON COUNTY BY 815 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, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 32 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 |
Nearby
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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.