Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Jun 3, 1999, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)

Expired

Jun 3, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

71 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Choctaw County, AL

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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ALC023-032200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
349 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 347 PM CDT... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENNINGTON OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  EDNA... MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF -
  OAKCHIA BY 415 PM CDT
  EDNA  BY 425 PM CDT

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 2:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
222 PM CDT THU JUN 03 1999

WEAK IMPULSES EMBEDDED IN THE NW FLOW ALOFT IS INTERACTING WITH A
WARM...MOIST AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SOME SCT
SHWRS/TSTMS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA AT THIS TIME.
ALTHO THE STRONGER STORMS SHUD RMN WELL TO THE NORTH AS THE INFLUENCE
OF THE MID LVL RIDGE SHUD HINDER THE THREAT HERE...CANNOT RULE
OUT THE ISOLATED STORM PULSATING SVR LATER THIS AFTN WITH THE MAIN
THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND PSBLY SOME STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. THIS
ACTIVITY WILL MOVE TO THE SSE AND LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE EVENING
HOURS BEFORE DISSIPATING WITH LOSS OF AFTN HEATING.

AS FOR THE FCST...MODELS CONTINUE TO BUILD THE UPR LVL RIDGE CRNTLY
OVER THE WRN GULF NEWD OVER THE FCST AREA ON FRI.  THEN THE MORE
AGGRESSIVE AVN SHOWS A DEEPENING UPR LVL TROF OVER THE ERN GULF IN
RESPONSE TO BUILDING RIDGES...THE ONE OVER THE WRN GULF AND ANOTHER
OVER THE ERN CARIBBEAN...WHICH SEEMS REASONABLE AT THIS TIME.  WILL
CONTINUE WITH WX PATTERN OF WIDELY SCT AFTN/EVNG TSTMS THRU THE
PERIOD WITH AFTN HTG AND WEAK IMPULSES EMBEDDED IN THE NW FLOW BEING
THE MAIN TRIGGER ON FRI AND THEN THE AFOREMENTIONED DEEPENING TROF
OVER THE ERN GULF COUPLED WITH THE SEA BREEZE RESULTING IN MORE TSTM
DEVELOPMENT AGAIN BY SAT AFTN.  NUMERICAL GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE SIMILAR
AND LOOK REASONABLE SO WILL NOT STRAY FAR.

OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...PERSISTENT RIDGE OF HIGH PRES WILL KEEP
WINDS MAINLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE WITH SEAS 2 FT OR LESS THRU SAT.

MOB 70/92/70/92 1212  PNS 71/89/71/89 1212
DTS 73/86/73/86 1212  GZH 67/93/67/93 2212 39

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

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.