Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2019, 3:20 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2019, 3:20 PM CST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2019, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:35 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Wsw Red Oak, AL | SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALONG OPEN POND RD WITH ONE FALLING ON A CAR. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
900
WUUS54 KMOB 032120
SVRMOB
ALC039-032200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.190303T2120Z-190303T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
320 PM CST SUN MAR 3 2019
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Covington County in south central Alabama...
* Until 400 PM CST.
* At 319 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles northwest
of Laurel Hill, or 12 miles west of Florala, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Florala and Lockhart.
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 600 PM CST for south central
Alabama.
LAT...LON 3100 8644 3100 8669 3118 8655 3119 8619
3099 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 2119Z 267DEG 34KT 3104 8653
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
542
WWUS54 KMOB 032131
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
331 PM CST SUN MAR 3 2019
ALC039-032200-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-190303T2200Z/
Covington AL-
331 PM CST SUN MAR 3 2019
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
FOR SOUTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY...
At 331 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lockhart, or 4
miles northwest of Florala, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Florala and Lockhart.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CST for south central
Alabama.
LAT...LON 3100 8644 3100 8669 3118 8655 3119 8619
3099 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 267DEG 34KT 3105 8639
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 63 min |
| Mar 3, 11:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 52 min |
| Mar 3, 11:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 11:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 50 min |
| Mar 3, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 52 min |
| Mar 3, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 51 min |
| Mar 3, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 1:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 23 min |
| Mar 3, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 50 min |
| Mar 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 67 min |
| Mar 3, 2:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 52 min |
| Mar 3, 2:48 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Mar 3, 2:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Mar 3, 3:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Mar 3, 3:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 56 min |
| Mar 3, 3:21 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Mar 3, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 50 min |
| Mar 3, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 3:57 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 79 min | |
| Mar 3, 4:07 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 81 min | |
| Mar 3, 4:09 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Mar 3, 4:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Mar 3, 5:00 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Mar 3, 5:45 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.