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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Mobile, AL

August 22, 2011Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2011, 6:21 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 16 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
Aug 22, 2011, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2011, 6:37 PM CDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2680 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
2680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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.

188 
WUUS54 KMOB 222321
SVRMOB
ALC003-230000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0201.110822T2321Z-110823T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
621 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 618 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 12 MILES EAST OF ROBERTSDALE...
  OR 11 MILES WEST OF CANTONMENT...AND MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ROBERTSDALE...        LOXLEY...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 44 AND 64.

&&

LAT...LON 3056 8783 3079 8772 3063 8743 3048 8746
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 112DEG 8KT 3059 8753

$$
1 follow-up statement
598 
WWUS54 KMOB 222337
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
637 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2011

ALC003-222346-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0201.000000T0000Z-110823T0000Z/
BALDWIN AL-
637 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW 
SEVERE LIMITS...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3056 8783 3079 8772 3063 8743 3048 8746
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 112DEG 8KT 3060 8757

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler42 min
Aug 22, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh, Escambia25 min
Aug 22, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMonroe25 min
Aug 22, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler31 min
Aug 22, 5:53 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB52 min
Aug 22, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Monroe45 min
Aug 22, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia39 min
Aug 22, 6:54 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB51 min
Aug 22, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin38 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.