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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Mobile, AL

May 25, 2014Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2014, 7:19 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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
May 25, 2014, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2014-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2014-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 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.

721 
WUUS54 KMOB 260019
SVRMOB
ALC131-260115-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0082.140526T0019Z-140526T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
719 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 711 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
  SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH
  OF CAMDEN...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BOYKIN...             CAMDEN...

LAT...LON 3212 8723 3210 8722 3210 8721 3208 8719
      3205 8717 3205 8710 3183 8712 3183 8734
      3212 8741 3213 8725
TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 176DEG 8KT 3187 8723

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.