Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 6:19 PM CST for Escambia County, Florida; 5 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 26 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, 6:19 PM CST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 270019 SVRMOB ALC003-025-035-053-099-FLC033-270045- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0040.050327T0019Z-050327T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 619 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 614 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ELISKA TO PHILLIPSVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES SOUTH OF GROVE HILL TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAY MINETTE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WALNUT HILL AND URIAH BY 625 PM CST CLAIBORNE AND OAK GROVE BY 630 PM CST FOUNTAIN AND WAWBEEK BY 635 PM CST KEITH AND WEST MONROEVILLE BY 640 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. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 3146 8771 3073 8768 3114 8709 3187 8711 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 270033
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
633 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005
ALC003-270043-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050327T0045Z/
BALDWIN AL-
633 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BALDWIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORMS WHICH STARTED OVER NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY HAVE MOVED
EAST OF THE AREA.
LAT...LON 3115 8709 3082 8757 3086 8762 3094 8759
3124 8760 3130 8769 3147 8769 3182 8718
3184 8710
$$
ALC025-035-053-099-FLC033-270045-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050327T0045Z/
ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL-MONROE AL-CLARKE AL-ESCAMBIA FL-
633 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA...SOUTHEASTERN CLARKE...MONROE...WESTERN
CONECUH AND WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES...
AT 632 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MANISTEE TO BRATT...OR ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE TO 20 MILES
EAST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HOMEWOOD...WALNUT HILL...POARCH AND NOKOMIS BY 625 PM CST
MANISTEE...OAK GROVE...BRATT AND URIAH BY 630 PM CST
PERDUE HILL AND WAWBEEK BY 635 PM CST
LAT...LON 3115 8709 3082 8757 3086 8762 3094 8759
3124 8760 3130 8769 3147 8769 3182 8718
3184 8710
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 4:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 32 min |
| Mar 26, 6:07 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 113 min | |
| Mar 26, 6:10 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 20 min | |
| Mar 26, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 7:49 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 1:51 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 24 min | |
| Mar 27, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 3:23 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| Mar 27, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 3:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Mar 27, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 5:43 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Mar 27, 10:14 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Mar 27, 10:40 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 35 min | |
| Mar 27, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 36 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.