Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 7:48 AM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 28, 1998, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1998, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 8:05 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Opp, AL | A tornado briefly touched down along County Road 77, about 4 miles southwest of Opp. The tornado twisted several trees and power lines down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WFUS1 KMOB 281249 RRA TORMOB ALC039-281330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 748 AM CDT MON SEP 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 744 AM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 21 MILES SOUTH OF OPP OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STEDMAN... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTH 50 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- GREEN BAY BY 750 AM CDT OPP BY 800 AM CDT BABBIE BY 800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 69 min |
| Sep 28, 1:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 8:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 79 min |
| Sep 28, 10:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 79 min |
| Sep 28, 11:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 8 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 8 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 8 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 44 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.