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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

June 13, 2015Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2015, 5:07 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 13, 2015, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Crenshaw County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
142 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015

MSZ067-076-131915-
WAYNE MS-GREENE MS-
142 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN GREENE AND WAYNE
COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM CDT...

AT 140 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR STATE
LINE TO NEAR BUCKATUNNA TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...AND
WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO...          STATE LINE...          BUCKATUNNA...
CLARA...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. 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 3119 8844 3116 8877 3183 8881 3185 8865
      3188 8852 3189 8847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1840Z 170DEG 25KT 3143 8856 3175 8854

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
241 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015

ALZ052-053-132015-
WASHINGTON AL-CLARKE AL-
241 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON AND
WESTERN CLARKE COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CDT...

AT 241 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SAINT
STEPHENS...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAINT STEPHENS...      LEROY...

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.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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 3174 8789 3148 8795 3150 8811 3170 8816
      3170 8809 3173 8809
TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 186DEG 15KT 3156 8804

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:07 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	34 min
Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	45 min
Jun 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	38 min
Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	39 min
Jun 13, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene, Wayne	33 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.