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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 9:33 AM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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, 9:33 AM CST (15:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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 22, 6:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 221534
SVRMOB
ALC129-221600-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0009.050322T1533Z-050322T1600Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
933 AM CST TUE MAR 22 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 1000 AM CST
* AT 933 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF HEALING SPRINGS TO 13
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESCATAWPA AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HEALING SPRINGS AND MILLRY BY 940 AM CST
VINEGAR BEND AND JORDON BY 945 AM CST
FRANKVILLE AND SILVER CROSS BY 950 AM CST
SEABOARD BY 955 AM 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.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAT...LON 3168 8811 3159 8810 3151 8797 3134 8799
3132 8800 3120 8802 3119 8843 3168 8845
3169 8813
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 8:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 32 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.