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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this freeze watch at Oct 31, 2014, 3:56 AM CDT for 10 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Nov 2, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2014, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 2, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2014, 4:00 AM 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, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 30, 10:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 10:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 30, 3:45 PM CDT, 12 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 345 PM CDT THU OCT 30 2014 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-311200- 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- 345 PM CDT THU OCT 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY PATCHY FROST OR A LIGHT FREEZE WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY MORNING... ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE HIGHWAY 84 CORRIDOR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-311200- 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- 345 PM CDT THU OCT 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING... RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT. THE HIGHEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING...WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO GALE FORCE POSSIBLE OVER THE ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA GULF WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 5:30 AM CDT | Gale Warning | MOB | 29 hr | |
| Oct 31, 5:30 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 50 hr | |
| Oct 31, 12:05 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 24 hr |
| Oct 31, 1:53 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 41 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Alabama, 2014Freeze Watches in Mississippi, 2014Freeze Watches in Florida, 2014Every freeze watch in 2014
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.