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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Mobile, AL

June 12, 20234 counties in Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2023, 2:41 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 12, 2023, 2:41 AM CDT (07:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2023, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 2168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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 Jun 12, 12:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 12:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 1:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 1:57 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	43 min
Jun 12, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	50 min
Jun 12, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	25 min
Jun 12, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	63 min
Jun 12, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Monroe, Wilcox	45 min
Jun 12, 3:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	41 min
Jun 12, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	45 min
Jun 12, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	50 min
Jun 12, 5:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	53 min
Jun 12, 5:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	38 min
Jun 12, 6:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	43 min
Jun 12, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	52 min
Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Jun 12, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Jun 12, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	40 min
Jun 12, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	47 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	38 min
Jun 12, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	39 min
Jun 12, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	50 min
Jun 12, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene, Perry	49 min
Jun 12, 5:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	68 min
Jun 12, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George	39 min
Jun 12, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Perry	46 min
Jun 12, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Stone	61 min
Jun 12, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	41 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.