Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 8:26 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 8:26 PM CST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 270226 SVRMOB ALC003-270300- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0049.050327T0226Z-050327T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 826 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 823 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 MAGNOLIA SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 24 MILES EAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SEMINOLE AND ELSANOR BY 840 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 3041 8786 3027 8771 3044 8740 3065 8758 $$ JC
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 270243 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 843 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 ALC003-270300- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050327T0300Z/ BALDWIN AL- 843 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY... AT 840 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SEMINOLE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF PENSACOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUMMERDALE BY 830 PM CST 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELSANOR BY 840 PM CST SEMINOLE BY 845 PM CST LAT...LON 3041 8786 3027 8771 3044 8740 3065 8758 $$ JC
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, 6:33 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, 8:27 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.