Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 2:30 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 12, 2002, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 122030 SVRMOB ALC003-122100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 229 PM CST TUE MAR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 229 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF I10 NEAR THE BATTLESHIP TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF I10 NEAR THE BATTLESHIP THE LINE WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF BALDWIN COUNTY THROUGH 3 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL 911 EMERGENCY CENTER OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE.
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, 12:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 27 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, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 3:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 113 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.