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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2015, 3:01 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 23, 2015, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2015, 3:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 2882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
859 WUUS54 KMOB 232001 SVRMOB ALC097-232045- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0064.150623T2001Z-150623T2045Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 301 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 300 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED NEAR THEODORE...AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... THEODORE... IRVINGTON... NORTHEASTERN GRAND BAY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. && LAT...LON 3053 8834 3058 8824 3052 8810 3041 8831 TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 324DEG 3KT 3051 8823 $$
1 follow-up statement
985 WWUS54 KMOB 232032 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 332 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 2015 ALC097-232042- /O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-150623T2045Z/ MOBILE AL- 332 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 2015 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 332 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. && LAT...LON 3053 8834 3058 8824 3052 8810 3041 8831 TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 324DEG 3KT 3049 8821 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:03 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 33 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.