Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2018, 2:29 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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 17, 2018, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2018, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
759
WUUS54 KMOB 171929
SVRMOB
ALC003-097-172015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0028.180517T1929Z-180517T2015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
229 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2018
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Mobile County in southwestern Alabama...
Northwestern Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 315 PM CDT.
* At 229 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles northeast
of Axis, or 7 miles northeast of Creola, moving east at 25 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...
Bay Minette, Creola, Stockton, Axis, Movico and I65 And AL 225.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3105 8809 3118 8762 3100 8762 3100 8760
3096 8759 3091 8762 3088 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 1929Z 259DEG 20KT 3098 8799
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
087
WWUS54 KMOB 171957
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
257 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2018
ALC097-172007-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-180517T2015Z/
Mobile AL-
257 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2018
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3092 8773 3107 8784 3115 8774 3118 8762
3100 8762 3100 8760 3096 8759
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 239DEG 14KT 3104 8772
$$
ALC003-172015-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0028.000000T0000Z-180517T2015Z/
Baldwin AL-
257 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2018
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY...
At 257 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles east of
Stockton, or 11 miles north of Bay Minette, moving northeast at 15
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of north
central Baldwin County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3092 8773 3107 8784 3115 8774 3118 8762
3100 8762 3100 8760 3096 8759
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 239DEG 14KT 3104 8772
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:42 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 33 min | |
| May 17, 9:34 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 26 min | |
| May 17, 9:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 24 min | |
| May 17, 9:52 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 23 min | |
| May 17, 9:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| May 17, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| May 17, 11:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 49 min |
| May 17, 11:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 41 min |
| May 17, 12:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 47 min |
| May 17, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 48 min |
| May 17, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| May 17, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 43 min |
| May 17, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| May 17, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| May 17, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| May 17, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 23 min |
| May 17, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 35 min |
| May 17, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 45 min |
| May 17, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 46 min |
| May 17, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 47 min |
| May 17, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 53 min |
| May 17, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 52 min |
| May 17, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| May 17, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| May 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| May 17, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.