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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2025, 6:31 PM CST for Choctaw County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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 4, 2025, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2025, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 4, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 597 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
661
WUUS54 KMOB 050031
SVRMOB
ALC023-025-129-MSC153-050100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.250305T0031Z-250305T0100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
631 PM CST Tue Mar 4 2025
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Choctaw County in southwestern Alabama...
Northern Washington County in southwestern Alabama...
Northwestern Clarke County in southwestern Alabama...
Southeastern Wayne County in southeastern Mississippi...
* Until 700 PM CST.
* At 631 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Causeyville to 3 miles west of Waynesboro to 4
miles southwest of Clara to near Richton, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Gilbertown, Saint Stephens, Toxey, Lisman, Silas, Chatom,
Coffeeville, Pennington, Millry, and Butler.
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 700 PM CST for southeastern
Mississippi. A Tornado Watch also remains in effect until 100 AM CST
for southwestern Alabama.
&&
LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3230 8794 3230 8800
3228 8802 3225 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804
3209 8805 3206 8812 3201 8811 3199 8807
3199 8778 3170 8788 3148 8802 3142 8845
3144 8845 3143 8860 3156 8850 3231 8842
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 256DEG 38KT 3222 8854 3169 8871 3154 8876 3138
8897
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 4, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 4, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 35 min |
| Mar 4, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 8:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Mar 4, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 8:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Mobile | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 9:10 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Mar 4, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 9:39 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Mar 4, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 9:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe | 40 min |
| Mar 4, 10:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Mar 4, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 59 min |
| Mar 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 66 min |
| Mar 4, 11:31 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 74 min | |
| Mar 4, 11:33 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 72 min | |
| Mar 5, 4:49 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:54 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 22 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 59 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.