Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2021, 7:36 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 25, 2021, 7:36 AM CDT (12:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2021, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 613 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 713 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted.
179
WUUS54 KMOB 251236
SVRMOB
ALC023-251315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0031.210325T1236Z-210325T1315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
736 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northern Choctaw County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 815 AM CDT.
* At 736 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles south of
Butler, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Butler, Lisman and Pennington.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3230 8794 3230 8798
3228 8802 3218 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804
3209 8804 3206 8807 3207 8810 3205 8812
3200 8810 3200 8809 3199 8810 3193 8823
3204 8840 3231 8830
TIME...MOT...LOC 1236Z 225DEG 47KT 3203 8824
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$2 follow-up statements
549
WWUS54 KMOB 251246
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
746 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
ALC023-251315-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0031.000000T0000Z-210325T1315Z/
Choctaw AL-
746 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 AM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...
At 745 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles east of
Butler, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Butler, Lisman and Pennington.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3230 8794 3230 8798
3228 8802 3218 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804
3209 8804 3206 8807 3207 8810 3205 8812
3200 8810 3200 8809 3199 8810 3201 8814
3209 8833 3231 8830
TIME...MOT...LOC 1245Z 225DEG 47KT 3212 8813
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$711
WWUS54 KMOB 251300
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
800 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
ALC023-251310-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0031.000000T0000Z-210325T1315Z/
Choctaw AL-
800 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning has
been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3230 8794 3230 8798
3228 8802 3218 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804
3209 8804 3206 8807 3207 8810 3205 8812
3200 8810 3200 8809 3199 8810 3201 8814
3209 8833 3231 8830
TIME...MOT...LOC 1259Z 225DEG 47KT 3226 8796
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 56 min |
| Mar 24, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 12:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Mar 25, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 7:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 24 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.