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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2017, 4:23 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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, 4:23 PM CST (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2017, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:22 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted.
575
WUUS54 KMOB 022223
SVRMOB
ALC003-022315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0016.170102T2223Z-170102T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
423 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 515 PM CST
* At 423 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fairhope,
moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Fairhope, Robertsdale, Point Clear, Loxley, Summerdale and
Silverhill.
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 southwestern
Alabama...and northwestern Florida.
LAT...LON 3052 8798 3084 8762 3078 8754 3077 8754
3074 8752 3072 8750 3072 8748 3070 8747
3070 8745 3068 8741 3066 8740 3038 8784
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 229DEG 27KT 3050 8785
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$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 | 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, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 19 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, 4:29 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.