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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Mobile, AL

June 7, 2011Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2011, 2:57 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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 7, 2011, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 274 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 2011-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 772 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 2011-06-07The 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
772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1496 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
-54 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.

592 
WUUS54 KMOB 071957
SVRMOB
FLC113-072030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0085.110607T1957Z-110607T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
257 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 254 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 12     
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MILTON...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SPRING HILL...MUNSON AND BERRYDALE

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 32 AND 42.

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 3059 8695 3090 8705 3094 8678 3067 8678
      3061 8679
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 163DEG 8KT 3074 8687

$$
1 follow-up statement
128 
WWUS54 KMOB 072020
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
320 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011

FLC113-072030-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-110607T2030Z/
SANTA ROSA FL-
320 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY...

AT 317 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 SPRING HILL...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILTON...MOVING
NORTH AT 10 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MUNSON 
AND BERRYDALE.

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 3059 8695 3090 8705 3094 8678 3067 8678
      3061 8679
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 158DEG 7KT 3077 8688

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.