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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Mobile, AL

May 18, 1999Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1999, 7:06 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 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 18, 1999, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 18, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Brewton, AL	Ping pong ball size hail was reported by sheriffs office deputy in East Brewton.

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 18, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
213PM CDT TUE MAY 18 1999

BOTTOM END OF THE UPPER TROUGH COMING ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. MODELS
DID A FAIRLY DECENT JOB IN DEPICTING THIS. MEAN MOISTURE INCREASES
AS TROUGH APPROACHES BUT BETTER DYNAMICS ARE OVER CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN ALABAMA...WHERE SPC HAS OUTLOOKED SLIGHT CHANCE THAT JUST
TAPS NORTHEAST COUNTY WARNING AREA. LIGHTNING AND RADAR DATA SHOW
TSTMS DEVELOPING CENTRAL ALABAMA AROUND NOON. EXPECT THESE TO
DEVELOP SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AS TROUGH MOVES EAST...WILL LIKELY NEED
HIGHER POPS FOR EVENING HOURS OVER SOUTHEAST ZONES AND LESSER OR NO
POPS TO THE WEST. NO POPS AFTER TONIGHT. SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
OVER FORECAST AREA TONIGHT...DRIER AIR ALOFT FOLLOWS THE UPPER
TROUGH AND NEXT FEW DAYS LOOK TO BE DRY AGAIN. FAN MAXES LOOK A BIT
COOL FOR TOMORROW BUT MINS SEEM FINE WITH GOOD RADIATION AFTER
CLOUDS MOVE OUT...WARMER TO THE EAST WHERE CLOUDS LINGER INTO THE
LATE NIGHT.

OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WEAK SURFACE FRONT TO MOVE ACROSS THE
COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT. WINDS SHIFTING TO SOUTHWEST THEN  WEST AND
NORTHWEST WITH TIME. SEAS STILL 2 FEET OR SO.

MOB 62/85/61/86 2000  PNS 64/84/62/85 3100
DTS 66/82/66/82 3100  GZH 59/85/57/86 3100 11

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Santa Rosa	77 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.