Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 2:14 PM CDT for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 17, 2016, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
220
WUUS54 KMOB 171914
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-172000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0070.160317T1914Z-160317T2000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
214 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 213 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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 AND RUTLEDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3165 8632 3160 8655 3171 8663 3195 8641
3188 8622 3172 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 236DEG 25KT 3170 8652
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$2 follow-up statements
240
WWUS54 KMOB 171936
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
236 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
ALC013-171945-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-160317T2000Z/
BUTLER AL-
236 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3165 8632 3166 8645 3176 8645 3176 8644
3178 8645 3186 8638 3188 8622 3172 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1935Z 247DEG 24KT 3175 8635
$$
ALC041-172000-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-160317T2000Z/
CRENSHAW AL-
236 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY...
AT 235 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RUTLEDGE...OR
NEAR LUVERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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 AND RUTLEDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3165 8632 3166 8645 3176 8645 3176 8644
3178 8645 3186 8638 3188 8622 3172 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1935Z 247DEG 24KT 3175 8635
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$843
WWUS54 KMOB 171955
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
255 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
ALC041-172004-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-160317T2000Z/
CRENSHAW AL-
255 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 300 PM CDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. THE
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3165 8632 3166 8645 3176 8645 3176 8644
3178 8645 3186 8638 3188 8622 3172 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 236DEG 25KT 3175 8635
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 40 min |
| Mar 17, 7:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Mar 17, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 49 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 10:20 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Mar 17, 11:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 46 min | |
| Mar 17, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Mar 17, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Mar 17, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| Mar 17, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 49 min | |
| Mar 17, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 28 min | |
| Mar 17, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Mar 17, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 6:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 33 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.