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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Mobile, AL

May 16, 2007Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2007, 1:39 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
May 16, 2007, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2007, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 627 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 161841
SVRMOB
ALC003-161915-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0072.070516T1839Z-070516T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
139 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 138 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND    
  STRONG WINDS FROM 55 TO 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR       
  ELSANOR...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF PENSACOLA...AND MOVING         
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SEMINOLE BY 215 PM CDT...

LAT...LON 3063 8759 3050 8762 3039 8747 3054 8745

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 5:28 AM CDTFire Weather WatchMOBButler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more25 hr
May 16, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile28 min

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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.