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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2017, 5:04 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 86 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
- Jun 21, 2017, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2017, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 10:01 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 506 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted.
302
WUUS54 KMOB 212204
SVRMOB
ALC003-097-212330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0188.170621T2204Z-170621T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
504 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2017
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Mobile County in southwestern Alabama...
Southwestern Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 630 PM CDT
* At 503 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Magnolia
Springs, or 9 miles southwest of Foley, moving north at 75 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Downtown Mobile, Prichard, Daphne, Fairhope, Saraland, Gulf Shores,
Foley, Chickasaw, Spanish Fort, Point Clear, Magnolia Springs, Bon
Secour, I65 And I165 and I65 And AL 158.
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 700 PM CDT for southwestern
Alabama.
LAT...LON 3022 8793 3087 8814 3065 8783 3024 8762
3022 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 163DEG 67KT 3035 8784
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
797
WWUS54 KMOB 212229
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
529 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2017
ALC003-097-212330-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0188.000000T0000Z-170621T2330Z/
Mobile AL-Baldwin AL-
529 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2017
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL MOBILE AND SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTIES...
At 526 PM CDT, another severe thunderstorm was moving ashore from
the Gulf just to the west of Gulf Shores, moving north at 45 mph.
Other storms within the warned area also have the potential to
become severe.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Downtown Mobile, Prichard, Daphne, Fairhope, Saraland, Gulf Shores,
Foley, Chickasaw, Spanish Fort, Point Clear, Magnolia Springs, Bon
Secour, I65 And I165 and I65 And AL 158.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
A tornado watch remains in effect until 700 PM CDT for southwestern
Alabama.
LAT...LON 3022 8793 3087 8814 3065 8783 3024 8762
3022 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 163DEG 67KT 3073 8797
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 20, 8:19 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 50 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 113 min | |
| Jun 20, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:44 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 3:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 3:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 118 min | |
| Jun 21, 4:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 12 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 48 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 67 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 12 days |
| Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 3 days |
| Jun 21, 10:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 4:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 days |
| Jun 21, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Jun 21, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Jun 21, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 114 min | |
| Jun 21, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 21, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 45 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.