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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 1999Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1999, 4:48 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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
Aug 25, 1999, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1999, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Boykin, ALSeveral trees were blown down just south of Boykin.

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 Aug 25, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR MOB POP...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
200 PM CDT WED AUG 25 1999

500 MB LOW OVER WESTERN INDIANA EARLIER CONTINUES SLOWLY EASTWARD
TOWARD EASTERN INDIANA ATTM. TO WEAKEN OVER OHIO BY 00Z FRIDAY.

MCS DEVLOPING...AND DISCUSSED EARLIER THIS MORNING DID NOT REPEAT
YESTERDAYS EVOLUTION.  THOUGH AREA TO S OF IT WAS DOMINIATED BY
REGION OF SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE AND HIGH RH...NOTHING
HAPPENED. CONVECTION LIT UP ALONG COAST AS EXPECTED AROUND MID
MORNING.

ETA DID MODEL INITIALIZATION BEST AGAIN TODAY...AND CONSIDERABLY
BETTER THAN YESTERDAY...ESP SURFACE STREAMLINE AND T/TD ANALYSIS.
ALL TREATED VORT MAX OVER OH VALLEY PRETTY MUCH THE SAME...BUT
DAMPED IT BY TAU12.  AVN RAN AHEAD WITH IT JUST A TAD...BUT ALL
GENERALLY IN AGMT THROUGH TAU 48...OR 12Z FRIDAY.  COLD FRONT TO
CONTINUE SOUTH INTO THE  MARITIMES AND BOUNCE OFF THE COASTLINE
BEFORE PARKING ITSELF OVER THE FA TOMORROW...EXTENDING FROM DOTHAN
TO HATTIESBURG.  1000-700 MB MEAN RH AIR ALOFT WILL GET DRY IN A HURRY.
HIGH SURFACE BASED RH REMAINS JUST S OF THE FRONT TO KEEP CHANCE
POPS FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES THRU TOMORROW.  EXPECT LESS CONVECTION
COVERAGE ON THURSDAY BUT BECAUSE FRONT STAYS INLAND THIS CYCLE...
THUS GOIN FOR COASTAL POPS A BIT HIGHER THAN FAN FOR TOMORROW EXCEPT
EAST INTO DTS.  FAN TEMPS AND INLAND POPS TO REMAIN UNTOUCHED BY
HUMAN MEDDLING.

MOB TB 073/094 071/093 071 7733-
PNS TB 074/094 072/094 073 77331
DTS TB 074/094 072/094 073 77321
GZH TB 071/093 068/093 070 773-1
61A TB 071/093 068/093 070 773-1
2RO TB 069/092 066/094 067 77301

MOB  MOBILE REGIONAL AL
PNS  PENSACOLA REGIONAL FL
DTS  DESTIN FL
GZH  EVERGREEN AL
61A  CAMDEN AL (WILCOX COUNTY)
2RO  WAYNESBORO MS (WAYNE COUNTY)

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh78 min
Aug 25, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia70 min
Aug 25, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1999Every 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.