Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Mobile, AL

July 30, 2012Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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 30, 2012, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Covington County, AL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3159 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
3159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

093 
WUUS54 KMOB 302211
SVRMOB
ALC039-302315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0155.120730T2211Z-120730T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
511 PM CDT MON JUL 30 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 507 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
  WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OPP...OR 2 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ONYCHA...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HORN HILL...          ONYCHA...             LOCKHART...
  FLORALA...

LAT...LON 3099 8619 3099 8639 3099 8643 3126 8642
      3128 8621 3115 8618 3100 8618
TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 355DEG 12KT 3118 8631

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 10:28 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryMOB5 hr
Jul 30, 12:52 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB68 min
Jul 30, 1:25 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB65 min
Jul 30, 2:02 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB88 min
Jul 30, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile, Washington17 min
Jul 30, 2:28 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB92 min
Jul 30, 2:34 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB86 min
Jul 30, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin56 min
Jul 30, 3:03 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB87 min
Jul 30, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin56 min
Jul 30, 3:30 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB90 min
Jul 30, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin67 min
Jul 30, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB87 min
Jul 30, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile61 min
Jul 30, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB97 min
Jul 30, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia54 min
Jul 30, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington47 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.