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Heavy Snow Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this heavy snow warning at Jan 19, 2008, 10:17 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama; Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2008, 10:17 AM CST (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2008, 1:24 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heavy snow 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 heavy snow warning went out at Jan 19, 9:22 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 9:22 AM CST, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 9:35 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 10 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:01 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Jan 19, 7:18 AM CST | Snow Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 10:17 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:36 PM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:52 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 3 more | 27 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:52 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 49 hr |
Nearby
Heavy Snow Warnings in Alabama, 2008Heavy Snow Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every heavy snow warning in 2008
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.