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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2016, 5:55 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 2, 2016, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
736
WUUS54 KMOB 022255
SVRMOB
ALC025-022330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0182.160802T2255Z-160802T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
555 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 555 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHAWNEE...OR
NEAR THOMASVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMASVILLE AND FULTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3188 8767 3188 8763 3187 8762 3183 8762
3183 8759 3175 8757 3170 8790 3199 8796
3199 8767
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 348DEG 22KT 3198 8778
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
665
WWUS54 KMOB 022321
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
621 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
ALC025-022331-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-160802T2330Z/
CLARKE AL-
621 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CLARKE COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3188 8767 3188 8763 3187 8762 3183 8762
3183 8759 3175 8757 3170 8790 3199 8796
3199 8767
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 348DEG 22KT 3198 8778
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 32 min |
| Aug 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 47 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.