Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2017, 4:09 PM CDT for Clarke County, Monroe County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
- Jul 8, 2017, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
884
WUUS54 KMOB 082109
SVRMOB
ALC025-099-129-082200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0196.170708T2109Z-170708T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
409 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2017
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Monroe County in south central Alabama...
Eastern Washington County in southwestern Alabama...
Central Clarke County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 500 PM CDT
* At 408 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Whatley to 6 miles northwest of Wagarville,
moving southeast at 15 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...
Jackson, Frisco City, Saint Stephens, Wagarville, Leroy, Whatley,
Excel and McIntosh.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with these storms. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3142 8728 3123 8802 3153 8824 3169 8775
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 311DEG 13KT 3158 8770 3147 8813
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 11:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jul 8, 12:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 1:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 3:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 34 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.