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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 3:30 PM CST for Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 26, 2005, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 262130 SVRMOB ALC025-131-262215- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.050326T2130Z-050326T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 330 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 326 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF GROVE HILL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUNNY SOUTH AND SHAWNEE BY 335 PM CST PINE HILL BY 340 PM CST KIMBROUGH AND ANNE MARIE BY 345 PM CST PRAIRIE AND MILLERS FERRY BY 400 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3189 8787 3176 8773 3220 8710 3238 8729 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 8:45 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:26 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 49 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Mar 26, 11:02 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Mar 26, 11:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 2:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 3:35 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Mar 26, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 4:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Mar 26, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 5:14 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Mar 26, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 20 min |
| Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 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.