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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2005, 4:23 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 1, 2005, 4:23 AM CST (10:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2005, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 011023 SVRMOB ALC097-011100- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0099.050401T1023Z-050401T1100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 423 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 500 AM CST * AT 421 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DEES...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF ESCATAWPA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DAWES AND HUTCHENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BY 430 AM CST COTTAGE HILL PARK AND AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY BY 435 AM CST I65 AND AIRPORT BLVD AND CRICHTON BY 440 AM CST COCHRANE BRIDGE AND DOWNTOWN MOBILE BY 445 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. 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 3058 8852 3043 8841 3056 8800 3095 8801 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 9:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Mar 31, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 10:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 13 min | |
| Mar 31, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 11:25 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 31, 11:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 12:28 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 1, 12:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Apr 1, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 12:48 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 27 min | |
| Apr 1, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 26 min |
| Apr 1, 1:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 1, 1:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 1, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 23 min |
| Apr 1, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 20 min |
| Apr 1, 1:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 18 min |
| Apr 1, 1:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 1:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Apr 1, 2:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Apr 1, 2:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:55 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Apr 1, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 3:56 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Apr 1, 4:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 4:40 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 1, 4:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 75 min |
| Apr 1, 4:57 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Apr 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 5:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 6:00 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Apr 1, 6:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 6:52 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 1, 9:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Apr 1, 12:22 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Apr 1, 5:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 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.