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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 4:23 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 12, 2007, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:29 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Opp, AL | STARTED AS PEA SIZE AT 1620 CDT |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 122123 SVRMOB ALC039-122230- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0086.070612T2123Z-070612T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 423 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OPP...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELBA...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ESTOTHEL...ONYCHA...GREEN BAY...STEDMAN...HOWELLS AND FLORALA THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3134 8620 3134 8630 3099 8635 3099 8619 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 49 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.