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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

June 5, 1998Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1998, 11:36 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 5, 1998, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1998, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Clarke County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70	Countywide, AL	A line of severe thunderstorms moved through the county from west to east between 1045 pm and 1140 pm. Trees and power lines were blown down throughout the county. Some of the trees fell onto homes and businesses in the Jackson area where nine buildings wer

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

807 
WFUS1 KMOB 060435 RRA
TORMOB
ALC025-060530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1136 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1135 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 31 MILES WEST OF GROVE HILL
  OR 13 MILES WEST OF COFFEEVILLE... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR...
  MOVING EAST 50 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL BE NEAR-
  COFFEEVILLE AT 1140 PM CDT
  GROVE HILL AT MIDNIGHT CDT
  WHATELY AT 1205 AM CDT
  THOMASVILLE AT 1210 AM CDT
  FULTON AT 1210 AM 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
Jun 5, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	50 min
Jun 5, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	78 min
Jun 5, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	68 min
Jun 5, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	63 min
Jun 5, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	79 min
Jun 6, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	68 min
Jun 6, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	68 min
Jun 6, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	29 min
Jun 6, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	69 min
Jun 6, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	69 min
Jun 6, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Jun 6, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Covington, Crenshaw	94 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.