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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Mobile, AL

March 30, 2005Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 9:29 PM CST for 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 30, 2005, 9:29 PM CST (03:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2005, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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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 30, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 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 310330
SVRMOB
ALC131-310400-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0071.050331T0329Z-050331T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
929 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THIS A DANGEROUS LARGE HAIL SITUATION...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CST

* AT 924 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBAL TO BASEBALL     
  SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FATAMA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH 
  OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ESTELLE BY 935 PM CST
  DARLINGTON BY 940 PM CST
  ACKERVILLE AND SNOW HILL BY 945 PM CST
  FURMAN BY 950 PM 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 3185 8746 3184 8710 3198 8688 3214 8732

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 310345
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
943 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

ALC131-310400-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050331T0400Z/
WILCOX AL-
943 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THIS IS A DANGEROUS LARGE HAIL SITUATION...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR
EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY...

AT 941 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING 
HAIL BETWEEN GOLFBALL AND BASEBALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 
NEAR DARLINGTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 
60 MPH.

THE STORM WAS PRODUCING NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 4 MILES SOUTH 
OF CAMDEN AT 939 PM CST.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ESTELLE...FATAMA AND CAMDEN BY 935 PM CST
  DARLINGTON AND OAK HILL BY 940 PM CST
  MCBRYDES AND ACKERVILLE BY 945 PM CST
  SNOW HILL AND FURMAN BY 950 PM CST

LAT...LON 3185 8746 3184 8710 3198 8688 3214 8732

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 310354
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
952 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

ALC131-310400-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050331T0400Z/
WILCOX AL-
952 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY...

AT 950 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZED HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN 
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCBRYDES...OR ABOUT 
14 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MCBRYDES...ACKERVILLE AND ALLENTON BY 950 PM CST
  FURMAN AND SNOW HILL BY 955 PM CST

THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THIS WILL BE THE LAST SEVERE 
WEATHER STATEMENT ON THIS STORM

LAT...LON 3193 8716 3184 8711 3190 8692 3197 8686
      3207 8686 3206 8717

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 310359
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
959 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

ALC131-310409-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050331T0400Z/
WILCOX AL-
959 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1000 PM CST...

LAT...LON 3193 8716 3184 8711 3190 8692 3197 8686
      3207 8686 3206 8717

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	25 min
Mar 30, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	34 min
Mar 30, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox	36 min
Mar 30, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	32 min
Mar 31, 2:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	23 min
Mar 31, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	47 min
Mar 31, 7:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw	94 min
Mar 31, 7:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington, Wilcox	117 min
Mar 31, 11:21 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		24 min
Mar 31, 11:50 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		25 min
Mar 31, 2:17 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		58 min
Mar 31, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	24 min
Mar 31, 3:13 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		17 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.