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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 2016Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2016, 1:10 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 10, 2016, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2016, 1:36 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jul 10, 1:12 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Ne Mobile Regional Ai, AL	TREES ON POWER LINES ON FOREST OAKS DR.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 2847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

998 
WUUS54 KMOB 101810
SVRMOB
ALC097-101900-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0166.160710T1810Z-160710T1900Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
110 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 109 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN
   AND MIDTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MIDTOWN MOBILE...DOWNTOWN MOBILE...PRICHARD...CHICKASAW...CHUNCHULA...
  TANNER WILLIAMS...SEMMES...MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT...I65 AND AL 158
  AND I65 AND I165.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3071 8802 3062 8823 3075 8841 3099 8819
TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 140DEG 14KT 3075 8821 

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

1 follow-up statement

323 
WWUS54 KMOB 101836
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
136 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

ALC097-101845-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-160710T1900Z/
MOBILE AL-
136 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY 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.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND
HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3071 8802 3062 8823 3075 8841 3099 8819
TIME...MOT...LOC 1834Z 140DEG 14KT 3081 8827 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 7:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		94 min
Jul 10, 7:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 min
Jul 10, 7:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Jul 10, 9:13 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		32 min
Jul 10, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	50 min
Jul 10, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	39 min
Jul 10, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Jul 10, 1:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	2 hr
Jul 10, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	41 min
Jul 10, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	22 min
Jul 10, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	46 min
Jul 10, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw	33 min
Jul 10, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	20 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	52 min
Jul 10, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	49 min
Jul 10, 5:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Choctaw	53 min
Jul 10, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Marengo	46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.