Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2005, 1:59 PM CST for Butler County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2005, 1:59 PM CST (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2005, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 271959 SVRMOB ALC013-131-272030- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0063.050327T1959Z-050327T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 159 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 157 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLENTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY AT 210 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 3195 8714 3181 8699 3219 8643 3239 8670 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 272020 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 219 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005 ALC013-131-272029- /O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-050327T2030Z/ BUTLER AL-WILCOX AL- 219 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX AND NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OF THE WARNED AREA...INTO LOUNDES COUNTY. LAT...LON 3195 8714 3181 8699 3219 8643 3239 8670 $$
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, 8:26 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, 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.