Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2012, 2:53 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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
- Jul 3, 2012, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2012, 3:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
029
WUUS54 KMOB 031953
SVRMOB
ALC097-032100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0110.120703T1953Z-120703T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
253 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 249 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF TILLMANS CORNER...OR
10 MILES WEST OF I10 AND I65...AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL WEST CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY
LAT...LON 3063 8823 3057 8825 3054 8829 3054 8840
3061 8840 3066 8839 3069 8829 3067 8825
TIME...MOT...LOC 1953Z 350DEG 2KT 3060 8829
$$1 follow-up statement
358
WWUS54 KMOB 032018
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
318 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
ALC097-032026-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0110.000000T0000Z-120703T2100Z/
MOBILE AL-
318 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WEST
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY...
AT 312 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL
MOBILE COUNTY HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THUS THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3063 8823 3057 8825 3054 8829 3054 8840
3061 8840 3066 8839 3069 8829 3067 8825
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 180DEG 0KT 3060 8829
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Jul 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.