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Heat Advisory 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this heat advisory at Jul 30, 2015, 12:13 PM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2015, 12:13 PM CDT (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 30, 4:22 AM CDT, 7 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 4:22 AM CDT, 7 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 5:55 AM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 555 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2015 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-311100- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-MOBILE INLAND-BALDWIN INLAND-MOBILE CENTRAL- BALDWIN CENTRAL-MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND- ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-SANTA ROSA COASTAL- OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 555 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE ARE POSSIBLE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS. WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-311100- 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- 555 AM CDT THU JUL 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER IN AND AROUND ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER IN AND AROUND ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 57 min |
| Jul 30, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| Jul 30, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 30, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 30, 6:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Jul 30, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Jul 30, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 52 min |
| Jul 30, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Wayne | 34 min |
Nearby
Heat Advisories in Alabama, 2015Heat Advisories in Mississippi, 2015Heat Advisories in Florida, 2015Every heat advisory in 2015
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.