Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2013, 5:03 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 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 1, 2013, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
162
WUUS54 KMOB 012203
SVRMOB
ALC097-MSC039-012300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0113.130801T2203Z-130801T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
503 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 459 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WERE LOCATED ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF LUCEDALE TO REGIONAL AIRPORT
IN WEST MOBILE TO 5 MILES EAST OF TILLMANS CORNER...AND MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REGIONAL AIRPORT IN WEST MOBILE... MIDTOWN MOBILE...
CENTRAL DAUPHIN ISLAND... CODEN...
TILLMANS CORNER... THEODORE... SEMMES...
I10 AND I65... GRAND BAY...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 24.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 6.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE
ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 3023 8830 3026 8819 3036 8820 3037 8825
3032 8826 3037 8826 3036 8832 3039 8833
3039 8840 3073 8842 3074 8866 3106 8840
3078 8819 3065 8804 3051 8809 3030 8813
3032 8816 3031 8820 3024 8816 3024 8818
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 032DEG 15KT 3094 8842 3066 8828
3057 8810
$$2 follow-up statements
621
WWUS54 KMOB 012224
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
524 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2013
ALC097-MSC039-012300-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-130801T2300Z/
GEORGE MS-MOBILE AL-
524 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE AND EASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES...
AT 522 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8
MILES EAST OF LUCEDALE TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REGIONAL AIRPORT IN
WEST MOBILE TO 2 MILES WEST OF THEODORE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRAND BAY...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 12.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE
ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 3103 8842 3075 8829 3062 8821 3054 8821
3039 8840 3073 8842 3074 8866 3100 8844
3100 8842 3102 8842
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 031DEG 14KT 3087 8847 3061 8830
3054 8821
$$377
WWUS54 KMOB 012238
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
538 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2013
ALC097-MSC039-012249-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-130801T2300Z/
GEORGE MS-MOBILE AL-
538 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2013
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE AND EASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES...
AT 536 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN
MOBILE AND EASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059.
LAT...LON 3103 8842 3075 8829 3062 8821 3054 8821
3039 8840 3073 8842 3074 8866 3100 8844
3100 8842 3102 8842
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 031DEG 14KT 3082 8851 3056 8833
3049 8824
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:40 AM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Aug 1, 10:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Aug 1, 11:26 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 94 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min |
Nearby
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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.