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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

March 22, 2005Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 8:44 AM CST for Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 22, 2005, 8:44 AM CST (14:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 9:16 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 22, 6:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000
WUUS54 KMOB 221444
SVRMOB
ALC099-131-221515-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0007.050322T1444Z-050322T1515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
844 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 915 AM CST

* AT 838 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PACKARDS BEND...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COAL BLUFF BY 850 AM CST
  YELLOW BLUFF BY 855 AM CST
  ROCKWEST AND CAMDEN BY 900 AM CST
  BOYKIN AND CANTON BEND BY 905 AM CST

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 3186 8755 3167 8746 3201 8705 3223 8741

$$

2 follow-up statements

000
WWUS54 KMOB 221456
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
856 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

ALC099-221506-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050322T1515Z/
MONROE AL-
856 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONROE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3218 8730 3205 8716 3205 8709 3202 8706
      3185 8726 3185 8748 3184 8752 3187 8754
      3223 8740

$$

ALC131-221515-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050322T1515Z/
WILCOX AL-
856 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR
CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY...

AT 846 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELLVIEW...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BELLVIEW AND COAL BLUFF BY 850 AM CST
  CAMDEN...ROCKWEST AND FATAMA BY 900 AM CST
  ESTELLE BY 905 AM CST
  BOYKIN BY 910 AM CST

LAT...LON 3218 8730 3205 8716 3205 8709 3202 8706
      3185 8726 3185 8748 3184 8752 3187 8754
      3223 8740

$$

000
WWUS54 KMOB 221516
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
915 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

ALC131-221524-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050322T1515Z/
WILCOX AL-
915 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WILCOX COUNTY HAS BEEN 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 915 AM CST...

ALTHOUGH THE STORM HAS WEAKENED...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 
MPH WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 930 AM. 

LAT...LON 3218 8730 3205 8716 3205 8709 3202 8706
      3185 8726 3185 8748 3184 8752 3187 8754
      3223 8740

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 9:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	27 min
Mar 22, 9:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	46 min
Mar 22, 3:59 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min

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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.