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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2017, 12:58 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 47 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, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2017, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:22 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
062
WUUS54 KMOB 021858
SVRMOB
ALC025-035-099-131-021945-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0005.170102T1858Z-170102T1945Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1258 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Conecuh County in south central Alabama...
Monroe County in south central Alabama...
Southeastern Wilcox County in south central Alabama...
East central Clarke County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 145 PM CST
* At 1257 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Vredenburgh to near Monroeville to 12 miles
northwest of Uriah, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Monroeville, Frisco City, Peterman, Beatrice, Vredenburgh and Pine
Apple.
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
and southwestern Alabama.
LAT...LON 3196 8686 3196 8691 3164 8691 3154 8686
3139 8762 3170 8755 3170 8752 3181 8752
3182 8750 3183 8750 3199 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 251DEG 32KT 3182 8742 3158 8739 3145 8764
HAIL...0.75IN
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, 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, 4:23 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.