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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Mobile, AL

June 10, 2011Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2011, 5:54 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 10, 2011, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2011, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Clarke County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 539 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

115 
WUUS54 KMOB 102254
SVRMOB
ALC025-102345-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0111.110610T2254Z-110610T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
554 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  THOMASVILLE...OR NEAR HOLTAMVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COFFEEVILLE AROUND 645 PM CDT...

&&

LAT...LON 3167 8788 3175 8809 3176 8811 3176 8812
      3177 8815 3200 8801 3200 8777
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 022DEG 19KT 3197 8790

$$
1 follow-up statement
670 
WWUS54 KMOB 102317
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
617 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2011

ALC025-102345-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0111.000000T0000Z-110610T2345Z/
CLARKE AL-
617 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY...

AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCENTYRE...OR 14 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GROVE HILL...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CENTER POINT BY 625 PM CDT...
  6 MILES WEST OF CLARKSVILLE AND 7 MILES WEST OF ZIMCO BY 630 PM
  CDT...
  COFFEEVILLE BY 635 PM CDT...

LAT...LON 3200 8777 3167 8788 3172 8802 3175 8809
      3176 8811 3176 8813 3177 8815 3200 8801
TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 022DEG 19KT 3181 8796

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin53 min
Jun 10, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin29 min
Jun 10, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB42 min
Jun 10, 5:56 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB49 min
Jun 10, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke, Washington21 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.