Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2015, 5:56 PM CDT for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 4, 2015, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
064
WUUS54 KMOB 042256
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-050000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0095.150704T2256Z-150705T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
556 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 556 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOZIER...OR 17
MILES SOUTH OF GREENVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LUVERNE... BRANTLEY... RUTLEDGE...
GLENWOOD...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING. PLEASE TAKE COVER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059.
&&
LAT...LON 3156 8615 3150 8639 3153 8640 3153 8658
3163 8663 3165 8660 3181 8620 3179 8620
3179 8615 3166 8615 3166 8616 3165 8616
3162 8618 3162 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 250DEG 20KT 3158 8652
$$1 follow-up statement
302
WWUS54 KMOB 042352
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
652 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015
ALC013-041-050002-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-150705T0000Z/
BUTLER AL-CRENSHAW AL-
652 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER AND
SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...
AT 652 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN
BUTLER AND SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE
AT 700 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059.
&&
LAT...LON 3156 8615 3150 8639 3153 8640 3153 8658
3163 8663 3165 8660 3181 8620 3179 8620
3179 8615 3166 8615 3166 8616 3165 8616
3162 8618 3162 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 250DEG 20KT 3158 8652
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Jul 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Jul 4, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 82 min | |
| Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 4, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 40 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.