Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 2007, 3:55 PM CST for Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 7, 2007, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2007, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 7, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 072155 SVRMOB ALC099-131-072230- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0004.070107T2155Z-070107T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 355 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 349 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FINCHBURG...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GROVE HILL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FRANKLIN AND KEITH BY 400 PM CST RIVER RIDGE AND TINELA BY 405 PM CST CHESTNUT AND BUENA VISTA BY 410 PM CST WATSONVILLE AND NADAWAH BY 415 PM 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 3170 8756 3150 8750 3192 8691 3209 8708 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 072215 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 414 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALC099-131-072230- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070107T2230Z/ MONROE AL-WILCOX AL- 414 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WILCOX AND NORTHERN MONROE COUNTIES... AT 406 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FOUNTAIN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...NATCHEZ...VREDENBURGH AND 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLVIEW BY 420 PM CST BUENA VISTA...CHESTNUT...CORDUROY STATION AND BEATRICE BY 425 PM CST TURKESTAN AND FATAMA BY 430 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 3170 8756 3150 8750 3176 8711 3194 8726 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 11:31 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 4 hr | |
| Jan 7, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 28 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.