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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

January 5, 2007Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 2007, 4:02 AM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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 5, 2007, 4:02 AM CST (10:02 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 2007, 4:30 AM CST
In force
28 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), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 5, 1:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2007-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2007-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 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 051010 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC131-051030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0003.070105T1002Z-070105T1030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
402 AM CST FRI JAN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 430 AM CST

* AT 357 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILLERS FERRY...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 

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 3213 8752 3203 8734 3213 8710 3232 8748

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 2:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw26 min
Jan 5, 4:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox28 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.