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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2010, 2:47 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2010, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2010, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 2:15 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:15 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 530 AM CDT SUN AUG 22 2010 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-GMZ630-650-655-670-675-MSZ067-075-076-078- 079-231200- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-MOBILE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 530 AM CDT SUN AUG 22 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL GULF COAST TODAY. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE. STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 110 TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 110 MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 1:51 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 216 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 2010 ALZ052-MSZ076-222015- WASHINGTON-GREENE- 216 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 2010 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WASHINGTON AND GREENE COUNTIES... AT 212 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES WEST OF SUNFLOWER TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRUITDALE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... SUNFLOWER...SEABOARD...HAWTHORN...TOINETTE...ESCATAWPA...VINEGAR BEND AND TOPTON THROUGH 315 PM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG COULD DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS OR BRANCHES AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT 1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 14 min | |
| Aug 22, 2:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Crenshaw | 110 min |
| Aug 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:09 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | 28 hr | |
| Aug 22, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 118 min |
| Aug 22, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Aug 22, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 44 min | |
| Aug 22, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Aug 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 98 min | |
| Aug 22, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 69 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.