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Dense Fog Advisory 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this dense fog advisory at Jan 23, 2012, 9:22 PM CST for 5 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2012, 9:22 PM CST (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2012, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at Jan 23, 5:40 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 5:40 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 9:55 AM CST, 11 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 955 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-241600- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 955 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT TORNADO WATCH 11 IS CANCELLED FOR ALL COUNTIES. RADAR SIGNATURE HAS WEAKENED AND A WATCH IS NO LONGER WARRANTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THURSDAY...BUT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME WITH THIS SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY. GMZ630-650-655-670-675-241600- MOBILE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 955 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY OVER THE MARINE AREA IS CANCELLED DUE TO VISIBILITY HAVING RISEN TO 3 TO 5 MILES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A RISK OF STRONG EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS IS EXPECTED OVER THE MARINE AREA BY MIDWEEK. HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT LIKELY.
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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.