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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2016, 9:08 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 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 23, 2016, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
972
WUUS54 KMOB 240308
SVRMOB
ALC039-240330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0059.160224T0308Z-160224T0330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
908 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 930 PM CST
* AT 908 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FLORALA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLORALA AND LOCKHART.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA AND NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3099 8627 3099 8640 3107 8642 3121 8620
3101 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0308Z 244DEG 32KT 3103 8630
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
158
WWUS54 KMOB 240326
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
926 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
ALC039-240336-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0059.000000T0000Z-160224T0330Z/
COVINGTON AL-
926 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CST...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA AND NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3099 8627 3099 8640 3107 8642 3121 8620
3101 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0324Z 244DEG 32KT 3103 8630
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Feb 23, 6:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 6:06 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Feb 23, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 50 min |
| Feb 23, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 11 min |
| Feb 23, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 44 min |
| Feb 23, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 25 min |
| Feb 23, 6:58 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:00 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 46 min |
| Feb 23, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 7:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 7:27 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 7:34 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 116 min |
| Feb 23, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 21 min |
| Feb 23, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 23, 8:15 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 15 min | |
| Feb 23, 8:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| Feb 23, 8:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Feb 23, 9:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 9:57 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Feb 24, 12:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 76 min |
| Feb 24, 3:59 AM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 17 hr | |
| Feb 24, 1:02 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 4 days |
| Feb 24, 1:02 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 8 days |
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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.