Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2016, 3:16 PM CST for Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 15, 2016, 3:16 PM CST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2016, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 12:02 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
785
WUUS54 KMOB 152116
SVRMOB
ALC035-099-152145-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0032.160215T2116Z-160215T2145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
316 PM CST MON FEB 15 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 345 PM CST
* AT 316 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FRISCO CITY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 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...
MONROEVILLE...FRISCO CITY...EXCEL...BEATRICE...MEGARGEL...URIAH AND
PETERMAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMAIN ALERT FOR A POSSIBLE TORNADO! TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO GO AT ONCE INTO THE
BASEMENT OR SMALL CENTRAL ROOM IN A STURDY STRUCTURE.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORM LINES CAN PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD
SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IT IS BEST TO MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
A BUILDING. THIS STORM MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT
PROPERTY DAMAGE.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3158 8697 3124 8756 3137 8770 3143 8764
3141 8761 3142 8760 3144 8757 3146 8756
3148 8756 3149 8758 3181 8724
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 227DEG 41KT 3148 8738
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 5:00 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 11:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 11:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 43 min |
| Feb 15, 12:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 12:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 23 min |
| Feb 15, 12:14 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Feb 15, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 36 min |
| Feb 15, 12:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 43 min |
| Feb 15, 12:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 12:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 30 min |
| Feb 15, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 1:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 47 min |
| Feb 15, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 49 min |
| Feb 15, 1:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Feb 15, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 42 min |
| Feb 15, 1:34 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Feb 15, 1:45 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Feb 15, 1:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 49 min |
| Feb 15, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 40 min |
| Feb 15, 2:41 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Feb 15, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 24 min |
| Feb 15, 3:15 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Feb 15, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Feb 15, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 3:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 15, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 49 min |
| Feb 15, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 26 min |
| Feb 15, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Feb 15, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 3 more | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 4:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Feb 15, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 36 min |
| Feb 15, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 12 min |
| Feb 15, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Feb 15, 5:20 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 40 min |
| Feb 15, 5:26 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 94 min | |
| Feb 15, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Feb 15, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 31 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.