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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2014, 5:30 AM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 16, 2014, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2014, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
534
WFUS54 KMOB 161030
TORMOB
ALC025-161100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0005.140316T1030Z-140316T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
530 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF THOMASVILLE...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 529 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 22 MILES WEST OF
THOMASVILLE...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
THOMASVILLE BY 600 AM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT SUNDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3188 8767 3187 8762 3183 8762 3185 8816
3187 8813 3190 8812 3193 8805 3194 8807
3192 8809 3195 8812 3196 8810 3196 8807
3199 8807 3200 8767
TIME...MOT...LOC 1030Z 267DEG 40KT 3191 8810
$$
JPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 6:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 6:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 6:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 7:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 8:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 8:31 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Mar 16, 8:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 9:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 9:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Mar 16, 9:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Mar 16, 9:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 10:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Mar 16, 10:59 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Mar 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.