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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 2008, 3:25 AM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 50 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
- Dec 10, 2008, 3:25 AM CST (09:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2008, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 100925 SVRMOB ALC003-035-053-099-101015- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0281.081210T0925Z-081210T1015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 325 AM CST WED DEC 10 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 415 AM CST * AT 320 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS NEAR TENSAW...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... REDTOWN AND BLACKSHER BY 330 AM CST... BOONEVILLE BY 335 AM CST... JEDDO AND MINEOLA BY 340 AM CST... URIAH AND VOCATION BY 350 AM CST... MEGARGEL AND GOODWAY BY 355 AM CST... FRISCO CITY BY 400 AM CST... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3156 8741 3138 8721 3100 8772 3113 8787 TIME...MOT...LOC 0925Z 225DEG 39KT 3113 8771 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 101013 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 413 AM CST WED DEC 10 2008 ALC003-035-053-099-101021- /O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0281.000000T0000Z-081210T1015Z/ ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL-MONROE AL-BALDWIN AL- 411 AM CST WED DEC 10 2008 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN... SOUTHWESTERN MONROE...SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH AND NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 415 AM CST... THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS ESCAMBIA AND CONECUH COUNTIES...PRODUCING WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. WHILE NOT CONSIDERED SEVERE...THESE STORMS ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SMALL LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS AS THEY TRACK EAST TOWARDS THE BREWTON AND EVERGREEN AREAS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3156 8741 3138 8721 3100 8772 3113 8787 TIME...MOT...LOC 1011Z 225DEG 39KT 3148 8730 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 2:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Dec 10, 3:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 25 min |
| Dec 10, 3:16 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 44 min | |
| Dec 10, 4:01 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Dec 10, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 5:57 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 6:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 30 min |
| Dec 10, 6:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 18 min |
| Dec 10, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 29 min |
| Dec 10, 6:45 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 10, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Dec 10, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 7:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 112 min |
| Dec 10, 7:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Dec 10, 8:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| Dec 10, 8:57 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 26 min |
| Dec 10, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Dec 10, 12:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Dec 10, 2:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 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.