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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2012, 4:50 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2012, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2012, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Loxley, AL | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN LOXELY BY BALDWIN COUNTY EMA. |
| Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 E Loxley, AL | FUNNEL CLOUD OBSERVED 3 TIMES BY FIRE DEPT NEAR COUNTY ROADS 64 AND 65. REPORTS OF TREE LIMBS DOWN IN AREA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 2165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
233 WUUS54 KMOB 052150 SVRMOB ALC003-052230- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0092.120605T2150Z-120605T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 450 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 450 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOXLEY...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STAPLETON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LOXLEY... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 43 AND 61. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. && LAT...LON 3055 8749 3059 8784 3076 8773 3072 8753 TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 356DEG 10KT 3066 8764 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 6:33 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 4 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.