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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1999, 7:24 PM CDT for Clarke County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1999, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 8, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 215 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 1999 UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS PERSISTENT RIDGE OVER TX EXTENDING INTO THE N GULF WHILE LOWER HEIGHTS WERE OBSERVED OVER THE TN VALLEY AND UPPER MID WEST. AT THE SFC...WEAK W-E TROF WAS DRAPED OVER THE EXTREME N CENTRAL GULF...FOCUSING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS. DIFFERENTIAL HEATING OF THE LAND MASS AND DEVELOPING SEABREEZE WILL ENHANCE 1000/850 MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WITH HIGHER CHANCES OF CONVECTION OVER THE COAST FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE WEAK COASTAL TROF AND APPROACHING H85 TROF FROM THE N...NOW OVER THE TN VALLEY WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER MAKERS THROUGH TUE. WILL HAVE TO WATCH UPPER LEVEL NW FLOW SETUP THIS CYCLE WHICH FAVORS CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS SLIDING SE ACROSS AL AND GA IN AREA OF FAVORABLE THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE. WILL LEAN ON A HIGHER CHANCE OF STORMS IN THE INTERIOR TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS POTENTIAL TONIGHT. FOR THE MOST PART WILL KEEP A CHC OF STORMS IN ZONES THROUGHOUT ENTIRE PERIOD AS AIRMASS DISTURBED WITH 1000/850 FRONT HANGING UP OVER FORECAST AREA IN MOIST ENVIRONMENT AS UPPER ENERGY EXITS OFF THE E COAST. CHALLENGE WILL ALSO BE IN THE TEMP DEPT. WITH INCREASED CLOUD COVER AND BETTER COVERAGE OF STORMS ABOUT THROUGH TUE. FCSTID=10 PRELIM NUMBERS... MOB TT 077/094 076/094 076 10354 PNS TT 078/092 077/092 077 10354 DTS TT 079/090 079/090 079 10354 GZH TT 075/094 074/095 074 10454 61A TT 074/095 073/095 073 10454 2RO TT 074/095 073/095 073 10454=
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.