Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT for Butler County, Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 5:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Thomasville, AL | ADDITIONAL REPORTS RECIEVED OF POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN IN THOMASVILLE. |
| Jun 17, 5:13 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Thomasville, AL | LARGE TREE DOWN ON GRIFFIN AVE. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 2424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
643
WUUS54 KMOB 172133
SVRMOB
ALC013-025-131-172215-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0145.160617T2133Z-160617T2215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
433 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 433 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM HIGGINS FERRY PARK TO NEAR MULBERRY TO NEAR BOGUE
CHITTO TO 9 MILES NORTH OF PENNINGTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMASVILLE...CAMDEN...PINE HILL...YELLOW BLUFF...PINE APPLE...SHAWNEE
AND DANNELLY RESERVOIR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3220 8736 3220 8733 3205 8718 3205 8686
3196 8686 3196 8645 3193 8645 3184 8690
3181 8816 3190 8813 3193 8805 3195 8812
3196 8807 3199 8807 3200 8763 3213 8762
3213 8752 3227 8751 3227 8744
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 344DEG 45KT 3285 8645 3247 8681 3233 8733 3233
8811
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
785
WWUS54 KMOB 172151 RRA
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
451 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
ALC013-025-131-172215-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0145.000000T0000Z-160617T2215Z/
WILCOX AL-BUTLER AL-CLARKE AL-
451 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR WILCOX...NORTHERN BUTLER AND NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTIES...
AT 451 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM DEATSVILLE TO NEAR WHITE HALL TO NEAR DANNELLY
RESERVOIR TO NEAR NANAFALIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMASVILLE...CAMDEN...PINE HILL...YELLOW BLUFF...PINE APPLE...SHAWNEE AND
DANNELLY RESERVOIR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3220 8736 3220 8733 3205 8718 3205 8686
3196 8686 3196 8645 3193 8645 3184 8690
3181 8816 3190 8813 3193 8805 3195 8812
3196 8807 3199 8807 3200 8763 3213 8762
3213 8752 3227 8751 3227 8744
TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 344DEG 45KT 3263 8638 3225 8674 3211 8726 3211
8803
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 8:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 43 min | |
| Jun 17, 5:28 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Jun 17, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Jun 17, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe and 2 more | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.