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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2018, 3:37 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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
- May 14, 2018, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Crenshaw County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 439 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
214
WUUS54 KMOB 142037
SVRMOB
ALC041-142130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.180514T2037Z-180514T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
337 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2018
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Crenshaw County in south central Alabama...
* Until 430 PM CDT.
* At 337 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Glenwood, or
4 miles southwest of Goshen, moving southwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Luverne, Brantley, Rutledge and Glenwood.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3150 8640 3153 8640 3153 8650 3165 8650
3166 8645 3179 8645 3178 8615 3166 8615
3166 8616 3165 8616 3163 8618 3162 8618
3162 8615 3159 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 064DEG 13KT 3169 8619
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
573
WWUS54 KMOB 142100
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
400 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2018
ALC041-142109-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-180514T2130Z/
Crenshaw AL-
400 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2018
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3150 8640 3153 8640 3153 8650 3165 8650
3166 8645 3179 8645 3178 8615 3166 8615
3166 8616 3165 8616 3163 8618 3162 8618
3162 8615 3159 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 064DEG 13KT 3165 8628
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 44 min | |
| May 13, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| May 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| May 14, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| May 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 57 min |
| May 14, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| May 14, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| May 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 16 min |
| May 14, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 56 min |
| May 14, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| May 14, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 53 min |
| May 14, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 32 min |
| May 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| May 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 39 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.