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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2007, 4:56 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2007, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Butler, AL | TREES AND POWER DOWN IN AND AROUND BUTLER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 102156 SVRMOB ALC023-102230- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0101.070710T2156Z-070710T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 456 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUTLER... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HINTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF BUTLER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LISMAN...YANTLEY AND 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTLER BY 505 PM CDT... CROMWELL BY 510 PM CDT... HALSELL BY 515 PM CDT... JACHIN BY 520 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3231 8842 3203 8846 3209 8812 3231 8817 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 14 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.