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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

January 13, 2006Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2006, 8:19 AM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Jan 13, 2006, 8:19 AM CST (14:19 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2006, 8:45 AM CST
In force: 26 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 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
Jan 13, 7:11 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 2292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 433 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 525 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 131419
SVRMOB
ALC131-131445-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0013.060113T1419Z-060113T1445Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
819 AM CST FRI JAN 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 812 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 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF COY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF GROVE HILL...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROCKWEST BY 830 AM CST
  CAMDEN BY 835 AM CST
  ESTELLE BY 840 AM CST
  DARLINGTON BY 845 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 3192 8760 3186 8740 3196 8704 3213 8740

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	48 min
Jan 13, 8:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	34 min
Jan 13, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington	31 min
Jan 13, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington	29 min
Jan 13, 9:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	27 min
Jan 13, 9:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh	26 min
Jan 13, 10:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	16 min
Jan 13, 10:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	43 min
Jan 13, 10:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw	41 min
Jan 13, 10:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	31 min
Jan 13, 11:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	23 min

Nearby

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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.