Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 6:33 PM CST for Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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, 6:33 PM CST (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 270033 SVRMOB ALC025-129-270100- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0041.050327T0033Z-050327T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 633 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 627 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TOPTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF CHATOM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TOINETTE AND SUNFLOWER BY 640 PM CST CORTELYOU BY 645 PM CST PRESTWICK AND CARSON BY 650 PM CST JACKSON BY 655 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. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3129 8825 3114 8807 3145 8765 3166 8790 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 26 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2005Every 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.