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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

February 16, 20255 counties in Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 2:41 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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: Feb 16, 2025, 2:41 AM CST (08:41 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2025, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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
Feb 16, 3:20 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Brantley, AL	Tree blocking US Hwy 331.
Feb 16, 3:25 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Carolina, AL	Downed trees blocking both lanes of US Hwy 29 near Pecan Loop.
Feb 16, 3:33 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 58	1 N Sanford, AL	58 mph gust measured at K79J.

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
Feb 15, 9:11 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

050 
WUUS54 KMOB 160841
SVRMOB
ALC013-035-039-041-053-160930-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0013.250216T0841Z-250216T0930Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
241 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southern Butler County in south central Alabama...
  Crenshaw County in south central Alabama...
  Northern Escambia County in south central Alabama...
  Conecuh County in south central Alabama...
  Northern Covington County in south central Alabama...

* Until 330 AM CST.

* At 241 AM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from 5 miles southwest of Greenville to 5 miles northwest
  of Castleberry, moving east at 55 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  I65 And US 84, Gantt, Andalusia, River Falls, Glenwood, Opp,
  Rutledge, Brantley, Dozier, McKenzie, Georgiana, Castleberry,
  Luverne, Red Level, Heath, and Evergreen.

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 AM CST for south central
Alabama.

&&

LAT...LON 3153 8620 3125 8620 3126 8722 3177 8687
      3179 8615 3166 8615 3162 8618 3162 8615
      3154 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0841Z 274DEG 49KT 3176 8667 3133 8710 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

MM

1 follow-up statement

348 
WWUS54 KMOB 160927
SVSMOB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
327 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025

ALC013-035-039-041-053-160936-
/O.EXP.KMOB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-250216T0930Z/
Butler AL-Crenshaw AL-Escambia AL-Conecuh AL-Covington AL-
327 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BUTLER...CRENSHAW...
NORTHERN ESCAMBIA...CONECUH AND NORTHERN COVINGTON COUNTIES WILL
EXPIRE AT 330 AM CST...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 AM CST for south central
Alabama.

Remember, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning still remains in effect for
southern Crenshaw and southern Covington counties until 345 AM.

LAT...LON 3153 8620 3125 8620 3126 8722 3177 8687
      3179 8615 3166 8615 3162 8618 3162 8615
      3154 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0926Z 274DEG 49KT 3172 8597 3129 8640 

$$

MM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 12:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	57 min
Feb 16, 12:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	53 min
Feb 16, 12:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	56 min
Feb 16, 1:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington	50 min
Feb 16, 1:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	51 min
Feb 16, 1:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh, Mobile	45 min
Feb 16, 2:05 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		85 min
Feb 16, 2:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile	66 min
Feb 16, 2:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	42 min
Feb 16, 2:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw	58 min
Feb 16, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	17 min
Feb 16, 3:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	38 min
Feb 16, 3:25 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Feb 16, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	20 min
Feb 16, 3:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	51 min
Feb 16, 4:57 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		93 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.