Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2012, 3:33 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 4172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
151
WUUS54 KMOB 032033
SVRMOB
ALC097-032115-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0168.120803T2033Z-120803T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
333 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 331 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED NEAR MIDTOWN
MOBILE...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF I65 AND US 45...AND MOVING NORTHWEST
AT 5 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST MOBILE... MIDTOWN MOBILE... DOWNTOWN MOBILE...
SEMMES... PRICHARD... I65 AND US 45...
I65 AND I165... I65 AND AL 158... I10 AND I65...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 18 AND 28. THIS
INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 14.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3068 8834 3088 8818 3077 8802 3075 8803
3074 8801 3071 8801 3057 8810
TIME...MOT...LOC 2033Z 126DEG 5KT 3069 8813
$$1 follow-up statement
544
WWUS54 KMOB 032059
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
359 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
ALC097-032115-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0168.000000T0000Z-120803T2115Z/
MOBILE AL-
359 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY...
AT 354 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MIDTOWN MOBILE...OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF I65 AND US
45...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST MOBILE... MIDTOWN MOBILE... DOWNTOWN MOBILE...
SEMMES... PRICHARD... I65 AND US 45...
I65 AND I165... I65 AND AL 158... I10 AND I65...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 18 AND 28. THIS
INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 14.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3068 8834 3088 8818 3077 8802 3075 8803
3074 8801 3071 8801 3057 8810
TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 126DEG 5KT 3071 8816
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Aug 3, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 20 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.