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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL

January 2, 2017Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2017, 3:13 PM CST for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 19 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: Jan 2, 2017, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2017, 3:32 PM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 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 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jan 2, 11:22 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

461 
WUUS54 KMOB 022113
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-022200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0010.170102T2113Z-170102T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
313 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Crenshaw County in south central Alabama...
  Butler County in south central Alabama...

* Until 400 PM CST

* At 313 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Beechwood to Greenville to near Georgiana,
  moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Greenville, Luverne, Georgiana, Rutledge, Glenwood, Petrey,
  Highland Home and Lapine.

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 800 PM CST for south central
Alabama.

LAT...LON 3159 8685 3196 8685 3196 8641 3203 8641
      3204 8640 3205 8640 3205 8630 3197 8630
      3196 8619 3189 8617 3179 8620 3179 8615
      3166 8615 3166 8616 3165 8616 3162 8618
      3162 8615 3160 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 267DEG 36KT 3208 8673 3180 8663 3165 8680 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

1 follow-up statement

414 
WWUS54 KMOB 022132
SVSMOB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
332 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017

ALC013-041-022141-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0010.000000T0000Z-170102T2200Z/
Crenshaw AL-Butler AL-
332 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CRENSHAW AND BUTLER COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...
    
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.

A tornado watch remains in effect until 800 PM CST for south central
Alabama.

LAT...LON 3159 8685 3196 8685 3196 8641 3203 8641
      3204 8640 3205 8640 3205 8630 3197 8630
      3196 8619 3189 8617 3179 8620 3179 8615
      3166 8615 3166 8616 3165 8616 3162 8618
      3162 8615 3160 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 267DEG 36KT 3209 8653 3181 8643 3166 8660 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 7:06 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	3 hr
Jan 1, 7:46 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	3 hr
Jan 1, 8:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	6 hr
Jan 1, 11:08 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Jan 2, 3:22 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	MOB		27 hr
Jan 2, 6:05 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	24 hr
Jan 2, 10:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	54 min
Jan 2, 11:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	26 min
Jan 2, 11:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	49 min
Jan 2, 12:05 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		55 min
Jan 2, 12:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	MOB	Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Washington	6 hr
Jan 2, 12:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	41 min
Jan 2, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe	48 min
Jan 2, 12:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	19 min
Jan 2, 12:57 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		63 min
Jan 2, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	47 min
Jan 2, 1:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 min
Jan 2, 1:27 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		48 min
Jan 2, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	46 min
Jan 2, 1:52 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		38 min
Jan 2, 2:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		60 min
Jan 2, 2:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Washington	6 hr
Jan 2, 2:11 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Jan 2, 2:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 1 more	40 min
Jan 2, 2:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	48 min
Jan 2, 2:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	50 min
Jan 2, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe	43 min
Jan 2, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	40 min
Jan 2, 2:51 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		54 min
Jan 2, 2:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox	6 hr
Jan 2, 3:03 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more	24 hr
Jan 2, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	53 min
Jan 2, 3:11 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		49 min
Jan 2, 3:30 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		60 min
Jan 2, 3:37 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		68 min
Jan 2, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	46 min
Jan 2, 3:53 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Jan 2, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more	61 min
Jan 2, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	54 min
Jan 2, 4:18 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		42 min
Jan 2, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	52 min
Jan 2, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	31 min
Jan 2, 4:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	6 hr
Jan 2, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 1 more	65 min
Jan 2, 4:59 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Jan 2, 5:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler	40 min
Jan 2, 5:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Monroe	63 min
Jan 2, 5:56 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more	24 hr
Jan 2, 5:59 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 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.