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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 1, 201210 counties in Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this fire weather watch at Jan 1, 2012, 6:05 AM CST for 10 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 3, 2012, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 2012, 6:05 AM CST (12:05 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 3, 2012, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 2, 2012, 1:34 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 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.

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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jan 1, 4:00 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 4:00 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 4:30 AM CST, 1 hour 35 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
Dec 31, 8:45 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more	360 days
Dec 31, 11:19 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		11 hr
Dec 31, 11:19 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	MOB		58 hr
Jan 1, 6:42 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Covington, Escambia	2 hr

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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.