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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 17, 2014, 3:14 AM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 14 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
- Nov 17, 2014, 3:14 AM CST (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2014, 3:28 AM CST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 1:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
447 WFUS54 KMOB 170914 TORMOB ALC013-035-099-131-171000- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0037.141117T0914Z-141117T1000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 314 AM CST MON NOV 17 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 400 AM CST * AT 311 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF MONROEVILLE...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF PETERMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PINE APPLE... BEATRICE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. && LAT...LON 3202 8692 3178 8673 3161 8723 3172 8731 TIME...MOT...LOC 0915Z 237DEG 36KT 3168 8722 $$
1 follow-up statement
154 WWUS54 KMOB 170928 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 328 AM CST MON NOV 17 2014 ALC013-035-099-131-170938- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-141117T1000Z/ BUTLER AL-CONECUH AL-MONROE AL-WILCOX AL- 328 AM CST MON NOV 17 2014 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX... NORTHEASTERN MONROE...EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH AND NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES... AT 325 AM CST...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX...NORTHEASTERN MONROE...EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH AND NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS... THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3202 8692 3178 8673 3161 8723 3172 8731 TIME...MOT...LOC 0928Z 237DEG 36KT 3175 8709 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 61 min |
| Nov 17, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 49 min |
| Nov 17, 2:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 37 min |
| Nov 17, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Washington | 66 min |
| Nov 17, 2:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 25 min |
| Nov 17, 3:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 53 min |
| Nov 17, 3:22 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Nov 17, 3:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 45 min |
| Nov 17, 4:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 53 min |
| Nov 17, 4:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 39 min |
| Nov 17, 4:24 AM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:24 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 49 min |
| Nov 17, 4:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 20 min |
| Nov 17, 5:09 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Nov 17, 5:47 AM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 24 hr | |
| Nov 17, 5:47 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 42 hr | |
| Nov 17, 5:47 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 36 hr | |
| Nov 17, 5:51 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 48 hr |
| Nov 17, 5:51 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.