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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL

February 22, 2013Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2013, 2:17 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 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
Feb 22, 2013, 2:17 AM CST (08:17 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2013, 3:15 AM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2013-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 421 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2013-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 640 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
640 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
752 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
11.8

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The text

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

233 
WUUS54 KMOB 220817
SVRMOB
ALC097-220915-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.130222T0817Z-130222T0915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
217 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 213 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
  WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REGIONAL AIRPORT
  IN WEST MOBILE...OR 12 MILES EAST OF WADE...AND MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  REGIONAL AIRPORT IN WEST MOBILE...          MIDTOWN MOBILE...
  DOWNTOWN MOBILE...    TILLMANS CORNER...    THEODORE...
  PRICHARD...           I65 AND US 45...      I65 AND I165...
  I10 AND I65...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 12 AND 28. THIS
INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 12.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...WHICH MAY
PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING ALONG LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DO
NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3055 8839 3071 8842 3082 8804 3066 8802
      3064 8803 3063 8805 3060 8805 3058 8806
      3057 8808 3055 8808
TIME...MOT...LOC 0817Z 259DEG 39KT 3063 8832

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 7:42 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBCovington, Escambia26 hr
Feb 21, 8:17 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBMobile39 hr
Feb 22, 2:19 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB86 min
Feb 22, 3:47 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB88 min
Feb 22, 5:18 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB117 min
Feb 22, 7:20 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB85 min
Feb 22, 10:05 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBEscambia11 hr
Feb 22, 10:05 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBCovington, Escambia11 hr
Feb 22, 10:22 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBBaldwin10 hr
Feb 22, 3:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke, Wilcox59 min
Feb 22, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.