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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL

February 28, 2011Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2011, 4:33 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 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
Feb 28, 2011, 4:33 PM CST (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 2011, 4:55 PM CST
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2011-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 652 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 2011-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 256 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
425 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

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

791 
WUUS54 KMOB 282233
SVRMOB
ALC131-282315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0009.110228T2233Z-110228T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
433 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 426 PM CST...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 11
  MILES EAST OF LINDEN...OR NEAR THOMASTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 55
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  REHOBOTH AROUND 440 PM CST...OR THE EXTREME NORTHERN TIP OF
  WILCOX COUNTY.

&&

LAT...LON 3225 8741 3225 8739 3223 8737 3221 8736
      3221 8732 3218 8730 3217 8740 3218 8753
      3227 8753 3228 8751 3228 8743
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 261DEG 48KT 3230 8751

$$
2 follow-up statements
406 
WWUS54 KMOB 282248
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
448 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011

ALC131-282315-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110228T2315Z/
WILCOX AL-
448 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CST
FOR NORTH CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY...

AT 445 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS NEAR REHOBOTH...OR ABOUT
17 MILES NORTH OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL EXIT THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTION OF WILCOX COUNTY
BY 5 PM CST.  THE WARNING WILL BE CANCELED AT THIS TIME.

LAT...LON 3228 8743 3225 8741 3225 8739 3223 8737
      3221 8736 3221 8732 3218 8730 3217 8740
      3218 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 265DEG 50KT 3225 8730

$$
954 
WWUS54 KMOB 282255
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
455 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011

ALC131-282305-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110228T2315Z/
WILCOX AL-
455 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3228 8743 3225 8741 3225 8739 3223 8737
      3221 8736 3221 8732 3218 8730 3217 8740
      3218 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 265DEG 50KT 3226 8717

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 4:00 AM CSTWind AdvisoryMOBButler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more11 hr
Feb 28, 7:28 AM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryMOB4 hr
Feb 28, 5:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Monroe, Wilcox53 min

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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.