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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2012, 3:31 PM CDT for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2012, 4:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
907
WUUS54 KMOB 032031
SVRMOB
ALC097-129-032130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0112.120703T2031Z-120703T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
331 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 330 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CITRONELLE...OR 5 MILES WEST OF BUCKS...AND WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOWA CHOCTAW RESERVATION... MOVICO...
MOUNT VERNON... GULFCREST... CITRONELLE...
CHUNCHULA... CALVERT... BUCKS...
AXIS...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 22 AND 31.
LAT...LON 3090 8831 3090 8832 3123 8829 3123 8796
3116 8794 3116 8798 3109 8788 3113 8794
3108 8798 3107 8795 3109 8791 3107 8793
3108 8787 3103 8796 3102 8793 3105 8787
3102 8790 3095 8787 3090 8797
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 208DEG 1KT 3101 8811
$$1 follow-up statement
818
WWUS54 KMOB 032102
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
402 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
ALC097-129-032111-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0112.000000T0000Z-120703T2130Z/
WASHINGTON AL-MOBILE AL-
402 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN
MOBILE AND SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...
AT 358 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR NORTHERN
MOBILE AND SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3090 8831 3090 8832 3123 8829 3123 8796
3116 8794 3116 8798 3109 8788 3113 8794
3108 8798 3107 8795 3109 8791 3107 8793
3108 8787 3103 8796 3102 8793 3105 8787
3102 8790 3095 8787 3090 8797
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 180DEG 0KT 3101 8811
$$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, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 61 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.