Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2002, 1:53 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 19, 2002, 1:53 PM CST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2002, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Patsburg, AL | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Patsburg. Tin siding was also blown from an outbuilding. |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 655 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 191953 SVRMOB ALC041-192015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 152 PM CST SAT JAN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 152 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF HONORAVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PETREY...LIVE OAK BY 155 PM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3189 8644 3172 8641 3176 8603 3191 8607
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 11:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 31 min |
| Jan 19, 11:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 23 min |
| Jan 19, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 30 min |
| Jan 19, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.