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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Mobile, AL

April 6, 2022Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2022, 9:29 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2022, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 6, 8:51 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 8:51 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 6, 7:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
713 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

ALZ051-070100-
Choctaw AL-
713 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northern Choctaw
County through 800 PM CDT...

At 712 PM CDT, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong thunderstorm near Kinterbish, or 7 miles south of Cuba, moving
east at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Lisman and Pennington.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3228 8794 3230 8794
      3230 8800 3228 8801 3228 8802 3226 8801
      3218 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804 3212 8804
      3212 8845 3231 8842
TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 267DEG 31KT 3233 8835

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
759 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

ALZ051-053-070130-
Clarke AL-Choctaw AL-
759 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Choctaw and
north central Clarke Counties through 830 PM CDT...

At 759 PM CDT, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong thunderstorm over Butler, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Butler.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3219 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804 3211 8805
      3209 8804 3206 8807 3207 8810 3205 8812
      3202 8812 3199 8810 3200 8809 3201 8809
      3199 8807 3199 8787 3187 8791 3199 8841
      3221 8821
TIME...MOT...LOC 0059Z 280DEG 22KT 3208 8820

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 8:30 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
830 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

ALZ053-054-070215-
Wilcox AL-Clarke AL-
830 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern Clarke
and western Wilcox Counties through 915 PM CDT...

At 829 PM CDT, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated
strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 4 miles north of
Magnolia to Wayne to 3 miles south of Putnam. Movement was east at 30
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Thomasville, Pine Hill and Yellow Bluff.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3224 8739 3220 8736 3220 8733 3214 8728
      3214 8725 3212 8726 3209 8722 3200 8729
      3180 8769 3191 8808 3193 8805 3195 8812
      3196 8807 3199 8807 3200 8763 3213 8762
      3213 8752 3227 8751 3227 8744
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 278DEG 28KT 3219 8768 3209 8782 3197 8804

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 9:16 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
916 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

ALZ053>055-057-070300-
Wilcox AL-Clarke AL-Monroe AL-Butler AL-
916 PM CDT Wed Apr 6 2022

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Butler,
northeastern Monroe, northeastern Clarke and Wilcox Counties through
1000 PM CDT...

At 916 PM CDT, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated
strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 5 miles north of
Camden to 3 miles southwest of Yellow Bluff to Fulton. Movement was
east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Camden, Beatrice, Vredenburgh, Fulton, Yellow Bluff and Pine Apple.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3210 8723 3208 8719 3205 8718 3205 8686
      3196 8686 3196 8663 3171 8703 3172 8705
      3169 8706 3161 8719 3176 8787 3195 8763
      3212 8725
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 275DEG 36KT 3207 8728 3194 8754 3180 8773

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	47 min
Apr 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	31 min
Apr 6, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Marengo	45 min
Apr 6, 8:32 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		6 hr
Apr 6, 8:33 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	6 hr
Apr 6, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	29 min
Apr 6, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	44 min
Apr 6, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler	31 min
Apr 6, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	62 min
Apr 7, 4:37 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	13 hr
Apr 7, 2:57 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	37 hr
Apr 7, 12:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Jackson	3 days

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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.