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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Mobile, AL

June 26, 2016Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2016, 4:44 PM CDT for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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 26, 2016, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2016, 5:09 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 26, 4:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	E Honoraville, AL	LARGE TREE DOWN ON HWY 50 JUST EAST OF HONORAVILLE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

671 
WUUS54 KMOB 262144
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-262230-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0151.160626T2144Z-160626T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
444 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  EASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 444 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF HIGHLAND HOME...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING SOUTH AT
  25 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...
  LUVERNE...BRANTLEY AND RUTLEDGE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3156 8652 3195 8650 3192 8628 3154 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 357DEG 22KT 3185 8638 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

1 follow-up statement

087 
WWUS54 KMOB 262209
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
509 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2016

ALC013-041-262219-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-160626T2230Z/
CRENSHAW AL-BUTLER AL-
509 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CRENSHAW AND EASTERN
BUTLER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3156 8652 3195 8650 3192 8628 3154 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 357DEG 22KT 3170 8637 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	54 min
Jun 26, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	64 min
Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Jun 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	47 min
Jun 26, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	50 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	40 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.