Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1998, 5:08 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- May 3, 1998, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Andalusia, AL | Dime size hail fell in the community. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
548 WFUS1 KMOB 032207 RRA TORMOB ALC039-032245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 508 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 505 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF ANDALUSIA... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 35 MPH. * TORNADO WILL MOVE OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF COVINGTON COUNTY. THE TORNADO WILL CROSS US-HIGHWAY 331 BY 520 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 55 min |
| May 3, 7:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 62 min |
| May 3, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 63 min |
| May 3, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 56 min |
| May 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 77 min |
| May 3, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 75 min |
| May 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 97 min |
| May 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 65 min |
| May 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 58 min |
| May 3, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 47 min |
| May 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 59 min |
| May 3, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 68 min |
| May 3, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 53 min |
| May 3, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 69 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.