Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2011, 6:41 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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 26, 2011, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 2353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
332 WUUS54 KMOB 262341 SVRMOB ALC035-053-270015- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0164.110626T2341Z-110627T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 641 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 637 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF EAST BREWTON...OR NEAR US 29 AND CR 43...AND MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BOYKIN AND BROOKLYN PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && LAT...LON 3101 8670 3101 8689 3127 8693 3127 8670 TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 178DEG 3KT 3112 8680 $$
2 follow-up statements
869 WWUS54 KMOB 262357 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 657 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 ALC035-053-270015- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0164.000000T0000Z-110627T0015Z/ ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL- 657 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CONECUH AND EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARIETTA...OR 17 MILES EAST OF EAST BREWTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DAMASCUS...US 29 AND CR 43...BOYKIN...DIXIE AND BROOKLYN PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. && LAT...LON 3101 8670 3101 8689 3127 8693 3127 8670 TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 198DEG 3KT 3114 8677 $$
083 WWUS54 KMOB 270017 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 717 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 ALC035-053-270026- /O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0164.000000T0000Z-110627T0015Z/ ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL- 717 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CONECUH AND EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER...THE STORM IS STILL STRONG AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3101 8670 3101 8689 3127 8693 3127 8670 TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 198DEG 3KT 3114 8677 $$
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.