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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL

September 28, 1998Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 2:01 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. 4 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: Sep 28, 1998, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1998, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Crenshaw County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
Sep 28, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Glenwood, AL	A tornado moving northwest out of western Pike County, moved through the community of Glenwood and lifted back into the cloud just northwest of Glenwood. The tornado destroyed a trailer and damaged several other homes. Trees and power lines were also blown do
Sep 28, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Patsburg, AL	A tornado briefly touched down near the community of Patsburg. Two homes had major damage and a business was destroyed. Trees and power lines were also blown down. Several horses were also injured.
Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Luverne, AL	A tornado briefly touched down just northwest of Luverne. The tornado destroyed a county barn and caused minor damage to several brick homes. Trees and power lines were also blown down.
Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Petrey, AL	A tornado briefly touched down near the community of Petrey. Three homes suffered major damage. Trees and power lines were also blown down. No injuries were reported.

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 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 281901 RRA
TORMOB
ALC041-281945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
201 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 200 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF LUVERNE OR 2
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOCIAL TOWN... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR...
  MOVING NORTH 55 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR-
  SOCIAL TOWN BY 202 PM CDT
  PATSBURG BY 205 PM CDT
  LIVE OAK BY 210 PM CDT
  PETREY BY 210 PM CDT
  HIGHLAND HOME BY 220 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
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, 7:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	42 min
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

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.