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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Mobile, AL

April 22, 2005Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 22, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 230116
SVRMOB
ALC097-129-MSC041-230145-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0151.050423T0115Z-050423T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
815 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  EXTREME SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  EXTREME NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF
  BOTHWELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF LEAKESVILLE...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF JONATHAN BY 825 PM CDT
  LEAKESVILLE BY 835 PM CDT
  ROUNSAVILLE AND PISGAH BY 840 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3146 8862 3134 8877 3097 8842 3113 8829

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 230130
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
829 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2005

ALC097-129-MSC041-230145-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-050423T0145Z/
WASHINGTON AL-GREENE MS-MOBILE AL-
829 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR 
EXTREME NORTHWEST MOBILE...GREENE AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON 
COUNTIES...

AT 826 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
ROUNSAVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF LEAKESVILLE...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF JONATHAN BY 820 PM CDT
  7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEAKESVILLE BY 830 PM CDT
  ROUNSAVILLE AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PISGAH BY 835 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3146 8862 3134 8877 3097 8842 3113 8829

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	42 min
Apr 22, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	64 min
Apr 22, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	44 min
Apr 22, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Wilcox	26 min
Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington	53 min
Apr 22, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile, Washington	53 min
Apr 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile, Washington	47 min
Apr 22, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	45 min
Apr 22, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	27 min
Apr 22, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile, Washington	63 min
Apr 22, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Covington, Crenshaw	46 min
Apr 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		67 min
Apr 22, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	23 min
Apr 22, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	50 min
Apr 22, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia	32 min
Apr 22, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Apr 22, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	45 min
Apr 22, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.