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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2015, 3:21 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2015, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
803
WWUS84 KMOB 272021
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
321 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015
ALZ054-055-057-272100-
BUTLER AL-MONROE AL-WILCOX AL-
321 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN BUTLER...
NORTHEASTERN MONROE AND SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM
CDT...
AT 321 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE APPLE...
OR 21 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PINE APPLE... RIDGEVILLE... FOREST HOME...
RUTTHVEN... AL 47 AND CR 29... AWIN...
MONTEREY... OLD TEXAS... FURMAN...
BUTLER SPRINGS... MOUNT MORIAH...
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING WIRED
TELEPHONES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OUTSIDE PHONE LINES.
LAT...LON 3196 8686 3196 8679 3173 8690 3175 8691
3175 8693 3173 8696 3176 8707 3205 8698
3205 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 200DEG 21KT 3179 8697
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 5:10 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| May 27, 9:56 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | 21 hr | |
| May 27, 12:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 61 min |
| May 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 65 min |
| May 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 61 min |
| May 27, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 47 min |
| May 27, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.