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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this fire weather watch at Mar 13, 2013, 5:46 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 14, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2013, 5:46 AM CDT (10:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2013, 5:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 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, 10.8 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
- 2353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 13, 5:07 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 5:07 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 3:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 321 PM CDT TUE MAR 12 2013 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-132030- 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- 321 PM CDT TUE MAR 12 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A RISK OF A LIGHT FREEZE EXISTS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING OVER INTERIOR AREAS. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-132030- NORTHERN MOBILE BAY-SOUTHERN MOBILE BAY-MISSISSIPPI SOUND- PERDIDO BAY-PENSACOLA BAY SYSTEM-CHOCTAWHATCHEE 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- 321 PM CDT TUE MAR 12 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO STRONG WINDS OVER THE MARINE AREA MAY CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY MODERATE TO STRONG WINDS OVER THE MARINE AREA MAY CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 11:02 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 35 hr | |
| Mar 13, 5:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 70 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.