Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2008, 2:54 PM CST for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 17, 2008, 2:54 PM CST (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2008, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 3:35 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nw Luverne, AL | ROOF OFF OF BUSINESS NEAR INTERSECTION OF HWY 10 AND HWY 331...ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE. EVENT TIME ESTIMATED. |
| Feb 17, 3:35 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Wnw Luverne, AL | ROOF DAMAGE TO CHURCH. LOCATION IS ROUGHLY 6 MILES WEST OF INTERSECTION OF HWY 10 AND HWY 331 ON QUAIL TOWER ROAD. EVENT TIME ESTIMATED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 172054 CCA
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-172130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0049.080217T2054Z-080217T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
254 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LUVERNE...
* UNTIL 330 PM CST
* AT 254 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
INDUSTRY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF LUVERNE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RUTLEDGE AND LUVERNE BY 310 PM CST...
LIVE OAK AND PATSBURG BY 315 PM CST...
PETREY BY 320 PM CST...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. 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.
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 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3184 8617 3181 8618 3178 8614 3175 8612
3171 8613 3153 8658 3153 8663 3167 8671
3194 8617
TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 242DEG 45KT 3165 8653
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 9:48 AM CST | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 17, 10:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Feb 17, 11:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 27 min |
| Feb 17, 11:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 35 min |
| Feb 17, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 60 min |
| Feb 17, 11:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Feb 17, 11:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Feb 17, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 12:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| Feb 17, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 12:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Feb 17, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 12:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 17, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 63 min |
| Feb 17, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Feb 17, 1:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 17, 2:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 19 min |
| Feb 17, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 31 min |
| Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 59 min |
| Feb 17, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Feb 17, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Feb 17, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 3:24 PM CST | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 5 hr | |
| Feb 17, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 24 min |
| Feb 17, 3:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Feb 17, 4:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Feb 17, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.