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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Mobile, AL

July 22, 2013Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 22, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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
Jul 22, 5:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Seminole, AL	TREES DOWN IN SEMINOLE.
Jul 22, 5:44 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Pensacola, FL	TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN ON LLOYD ST AND SCENIC HWY.

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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

187 
WUUS54 KMOB 222200
SVRMOB
ALC003-FLC033-222245-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0101.130722T2200Z-130722T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
500 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
  EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 458 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
  WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBERTSDALE...OR
  3 MILES NORTH OF SUMMERDALE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WEST PENSACOLA...     WARRINGTON...         MYRTLE GROVE...
  GOULDING...           GONZALEZ...           FERRY PASS...
  ENSLEY...             BRENT...              BELLVIEW...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN FLORIDA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 13.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 55 AND
66.

LAT...LON 3045 8779 3063 8777 3062 8726 3061 8724
      3060 8724 3055 8720 3039 8722 3038 8726
      3036 8726
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 278DEG 31KT 3053 8767

$$

1 follow-up statement

149 
WWUS54 KMOB 222223
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
523 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2013

ALC003-FLC033-222245-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-130722T2245Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-BALDWIN AL-
523 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN AND CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTIES...

AT 521 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF BELLVIEW...OR 6 MILES
NORTH OF LILLIAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WEST PENSACOLA...     WARRINGTON...         MYRTLE GROVE...
  GOULDING...           GONZALEZ...           FERRY PASS...
  ENSLEY...             BRENT...              BELLVIEW...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN FLORIDA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 13.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 56 AND
66.

LAT...LON 3042 8763 3062 8759 3062 8726 3061 8724
      3060 8724 3055 8720 3039 8722 3038 8726
      3036 8726
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 278DEG 31KT 3050 8743

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	22 hr
Jul 22, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	42 min
Jul 22, 6:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	116 min
Jul 22, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 min
Jul 22, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		85 min
Jul 22, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		96 min
Jul 22, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		27 min
Jul 22, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 min
Jul 22, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		37 min
Jul 22, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	63 min
Jul 22, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Wilcox	3 hr
Jul 22, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Jul 22, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	58 min
Jul 22, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		24 min
Jul 22, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		30 min
Jul 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		59 min
Jul 22, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.