Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2005, 2:24 PM CST for Butler County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 2:24 PM CST (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2005, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 272024 SVRMOB ALC013-099-131-272100- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0064.050327T2024Z-050327T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 224 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 223 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 NATCHEZ...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF MONROEVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TURKESTAN AND CORDUROY STATION BY 230 PM CST MCWILLIAMS AND NADAWAH BY 235 PM CST RUTHVEN AND CALEDONIA BY 240 PM CST ALLENTON AND MCBRYDES BY 245 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 3170 8741 3157 8726 3201 8671 3219 8698 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 272041
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
240 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005
ALC099-272050-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-050327T2100Z/
MONROE AL-
240 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONROE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED QUICKLY INTO EASTERN WILXOX AND NORTHWESTERN
BUTLER COUNTIES.
LAT...LON 3197 8685 3197 8667 3182 8690 3185 8692
3185 8715 3184 8718 3185 8720 3185 8731
3205 8713 3206 8687
$$
ALC013-131-272100-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-050327T2100Z/
BUTLER AL-WILCOX AL-
240 PM CST SUN MAR 27 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX AND NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES...
AT 235 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CALEDONIA...OR ABOUT
16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CALEDONIA AND WATSONVILLE BY 235 PM CST
RUTHVEN...ALLENTON...PINE APPLE AND OAK HILL BY 240 PM CST
MCBRYDES...SNOW HILL AND MONTERY BY 245 PM CST
FURMAN BY 250 PM CST
LAT...LON 3197 8685 3197 8667 3182 8690 3185 8692
3185 8715 3184 8718 3185 8720 3185 8731
3205 8713 3206 8687
$$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, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 31 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.