Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 12:03 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2002, 12:03 PM CST (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 12:30 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crenshaw County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 12:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Highland Home, AL | Trees and power lines were blown down near Highland Home. Dime size hail was also reported. |
| Mar 12, 12:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Grady, AL | Several trees and power lines were knocked down in the vicinity of Grady. One carport was blown down and destroyed. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 121803 SVRMOB ALC041-121830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1203 PM CST TUE MAR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1230 PM CST * AT 1203 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES WEST OF HIGHLAND HOME TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUTLEDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LUVERNE...LIVE OAK BY 1210 PM CST PETREY...PATSBURG BY 1215 PM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 3199 8644 3150 8644 3174 8596 3223 8596
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 10:09 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 10:09 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 11:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 12:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 18 min |
| Mar 12, 1:37 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 23 min | |
| Mar 12, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 2:22 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 68 min | |
| Mar 12, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 3:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 113 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.