Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2007, 7:53 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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 13, 2007, 7:53 AM CST (13:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2007, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 131352 SVRMOB ALC097-131500- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0009.070213T1353Z-070213T1500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 753 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 AM CST * AT 751 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRAND BAY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOSS POINT...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GRAND BAY BY 800 AM CST DEES BY 805 AM CST SAINT ELMO AND I10 AND MCDONALD ROAD BY 810 AM CST IRVINGTON AND SCHILLINGER AND THREE NOT BY 815 AM 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. 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 3050 8869 3032 8863 3041 8814 3067 8810 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 131426 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 825 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007 ALC097-131500- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070213T1500Z/ MOBILE AL- 825 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY... AT 820 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND BAY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF MOSS POINT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GRAND BAY BY 830 AM CST BAYOU LA BATRE BY 835 AM CST DIXON CORNER AND SAINT ELMO BY 840 AM CST IRVINGTON AND I10 AND MCDONALD ROAD BY 845 AM CST LAURENDINE...SOUTH ORCHARD...THEODORE AND MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK BY 850 AM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3050 8869 3032 8863 3041 8814 3067 8810 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 56 min |
| Feb 13, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 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.