Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2007, 12:07 AM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Feb 25, 2007, 12:07 AM CST (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2007, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 662 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 250608
SVRMOB
ALC023-250645-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0013.070225T0607Z-070225T0645Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1207 AM CST SUN FEB 25 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 1245 AM CST
* AT 1205 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE FROM 12 MILES EAST OF MERIDIAN TO 13
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERIDIAN TO QUITMAN TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
QUITMAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MELVIN...YANTLEY...HINTON AND CYRIL BY 1220 AM CST...
PUSHMATAHA AND HALSELL BY 1225 AM CST...
NEEDHAM...HODGEWOOD...ROCK SPRINGS AND RIDERWOOD BY 1230 AM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST 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.
LAT...LON 3232 8842 3218 8845 3206 8846 3191 8847
3192 8808 3200 8809 3206 8812 3210 8806
3232 8796
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMOB 250623
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1222 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
ALC023-250645-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070225T0645Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
1222 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CST
FOR NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...
AT 1218 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF HALSELL TO
YANTLEY TO HINTON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
LAND...HODGEWOOD...RIDERWOOD AND HALSELL BY 1230 AM CST...
BUTLER AND LISMAN BY 1235 AM CST...
ROBJOHN...MT STERLING...ARARAT AND JACHIN BY 1240 AM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3232 8842 3218 8845 3206 8846 3191 8847
3192 8808 3200 8809 3206 8812 3210 8806
3232 8796
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 250635
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1235 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
ALC023-250645-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070225T0645Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
1235 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CST
FOR NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...
AT 1232 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS REPORTED CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HALSELL
TO MELVIN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF BUTLER
TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
NEEDHAM...LAND AND JACHIN BY 1240 AM CST...
INDIAN SPRINGS...EDNA...BUTLER AND ROBJOHN BY 1245 AM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3232 8796 3230 8831 3213 8845 3191 8847
3192 8808 3200 8809 3206 8812 3210 8806
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 250647
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1246 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
ALC023-250656-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070225T0645Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
1246 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2007
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY WAS
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1245 AM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3232 8796 3230 8831 3213 8845 3191 8847
3192 8808 3200 8809 3206 8812 3210 8806
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 40 min |
| Feb 25, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.