Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2012, 11:57 AM CST for Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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
- Jan 26, 2012, 11:57 AM CST (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2012, 12:24 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
335
WUUS54 KMOB 261757
SVRMOB
ALC099-131-261900-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0006.120126T1757Z-120126T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1157 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 100 PM CST
* AT 1152 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTH OF CAMDEN...OR 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF COY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PINE APPLE... OAK HILL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 3210 8721 3205 8717 3205 8686 3196 8685
3196 8691 3183 8691 3173 8721 3185 8736
3210 8723
TIME...MOT...LOC 1757Z 224DEG 46KT 3187 8719
$$2 follow-up statements
198
WWUS54 KMOB 261813
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1213 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
ALC099-261823-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120126T1900Z/
MONROE AL-
1213 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3187 8697 3186 8713 3190 8719 3198 8718
3203 8718 3205 8717 3205 8686 3196 8685
3196 8691
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 225DEG 36KT 3200 8709
$$
ALC131-261900-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120126T1900Z/
WILCOX AL-
1213 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST
FOR EAST CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY...
AT 1210 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DARLINGTON...OR 11
MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HAMBURG...ACKERVILLE...MCBRYDES...ROCK SPRINGS...SNOW HILL AND FURMAN
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 3187 8697 3186 8713 3190 8719 3198 8718
3203 8718 3205 8717 3205 8686 3196 8685
3196 8691
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 225DEG 36KT 3200 8709
$$771
WWUS54 KMOB 261824
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1224 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
ALC131-261835-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120126T1900Z/
WILCOX AL-
1224 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3187 8697 3186 8713 3190 8719 3198 8718
3203 8718 3205 8717 3205 8686 3196 8685
3196 8691
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 225DEG 36KT 3209 8699
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 49 min |
| Jan 26, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 26, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| Jan 26, 9:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 57 min |
| Jan 26, 9:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jan 26, 9:49 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 2 more | 116 min |
| Jan 26, 9:50 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 23 hr | |
| Jan 26, 11:03 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 21 min |
| Jan 26, 12:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 26, 12:49 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Jan 26, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Jan 26, 1:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 days |
| Jan 26, 1:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 days |
| Jan 26, 1:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 46 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.