High Wind, Upper Mobile
- When
- January 27, 2:00 AM CST to 2:05 AM CST
- Where
- Upper Mobile forecast zone
- Measured
- 40 kt (46 mph)
- Property damage
- $150,000
High Wind in Alabama, January 27, 1996
A NURSERY IN WILMER SUFFERED MAJOR DAMAGE AS A COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. A 150 FOOT LONG PIECE OF GLASS ON THE BUILDING AND PART OF A WALL FELL.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.
A NURSERY IN WILMER SUFFERED MAJOR DAMAGE AS A COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. A 150 FOOT LONG PIECE OF GLASS ON THE BUILDING AND PART OF A WALL FELL. SIXTEEN PLASTIC HOUSES WERE ALSO DAMAGED. IT APPEARS THE BUILDING AND THE PLASTIC HOUSES WERE DAMAGED FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER THAT DAY. WHEN THE FRONT CAME THROUGH THE WINDS WERE BLOWING FROM THE NORTHWEST AND CAUSED PART OF THE BUILDING TO COLLAPSE.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Pennsylvania, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flooding in New Jersey, January 27 to 31, 1996
- Flooding in Maine, January 27 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in New York, January 27, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27, 1996
- High Wind in New York, January 27, 1996
- High Wind in Vermont, January 27, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27 to 28, 1996
- High Wind in Maine, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, January 27, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, January 27 to 30, 1996
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, January 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5537372.