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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this fire weather watch at Mar 24, 2014, 3:11 PM CDT for 10 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 26, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2014, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 26, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2014, 3:19 PM CDT
- 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 20:17 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 1866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 24, 4:30 AM CDT, 10 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 4:30 AM CDT, 10 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 5:03 AM CDT, 10 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 503 AM CDT MON MAR 24 2014 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-251100- 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- 503 AM CDT MON MAR 24 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE LATEST FORECAST CONTINUES TO CALL FOR THE POTENTIAL OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING. CONSIDERING THIS...ALONG WITH TEMPERATURES DOWN INTO THE THIRTIES NORTH OF THE BEACHES...WIDESPREAD FROST IS POSSIBLE IN AREAS WHERE WIND BECOMES LIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING. THESE CONDITIONS WILL BE DETRIMENTAL TO UNPROTECTED EARLY SPRING PLANTINGS OF TENDER GARDEN VEGETABLES. FOR THURSDAY...A STRENGTHENING SOUTHEAST FLOW AND ASSOCIATED ELEVATED SURF OVER THE BEACHES...BRINGS A POTENTIAL INCREASE IN RIP CURRENT ACTIVITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-251100- 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- 503 AM CDT MON MAR 24 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONTINUES THROUGH MID MORNING DUE TO STRONG NORTHEAST FLOW. WINDS DECREASE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON AS THE AXIS OF A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH FORMS NEARBY OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG RIDGE OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EASTWARD OUT OF THE PLAINS ON TUESDAY...RESULTING IN A STRENGTHENING OFFSHORE FLOW. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR TUESDAY. ADVISORIES POSSIBLY CONTINUING INTO TUESDAY NIGHT FOR THE OFFSHORE ZONES. SEAS TRENDING HIGHER. A DECREASE IN NORTHEAST TO EASTERLY FLOW FORECAST IS EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY ALONG WITH LOWER SEAS...AS THE HIGH SHIFTS EAST ACROSS THE APPALACHIANS. BY THURSDAY...THE PRESSURE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIGH OFF THE EAST COAST AND A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LIFTING NORTHEAST UP ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST RESULTS IN A STRENGTHENING SOUTHEAST FLOW AND A RETURN TO HIGHER SEA STATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 3:11 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 39 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.