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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 19, 2015Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2015, 4:48 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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: Jul 19, 2015, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 2267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 Jul 19, 4:29 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 4:29 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 4:16 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 12:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1232 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

ALZ051-191800-
CHOCTAW AL-
1232 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WEST
CENTRAL CHOCTAW IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 100 PM CDT...

AT 1232 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEEDHAM...OR
8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GILBERTOWN...          TOXEY...               NEEDHAM...

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 3191 8812 3190 8813 3188 8814 3182 8845
      3205 8841 3207 8820
TIME...MOT...LOC 1732Z 350DEG 11KT 3198 8828

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 1:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
122 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

ALZ266-FLZ202-191915-
BALDWIN COASTAL AL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL FL-
122 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...COASTAL
BALDWIN IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND COASTAL ESCAMBIA IN NORTHWEST
FLORIDA UNTIL 215 PM CDT...

AT 121 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MYRTLE GROVE.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BELLVIEW...            MYRTLE GROVE...
LILLIAN...

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 3040 8743 3040 8740 3041 8739 3042 8735
      3044 8734 3046 8737 3045 8740 3047 8742
      3045 8742 3044 8739 3042 8740 3041 8744
      3047 8749 3054 8728 3037 8729 3038 8731
      3037 8732 3036 8734 3035 8738
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 161DEG 4KT 3041 8735

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 1:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
141 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

ALZ266-191915-
BALDWIN COASTAL AL-
141 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...COASTAL
BALDWIN IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 215 PM CDT...

AT 140 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ORANGE
BEACH...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOLEY...               ORANGE BEACH...
GULF SHORES...

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.

THIS STORM MAY CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AND A WARNING MAY SOON BE
NEEDED. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

LAT...LON 3026 8774 3027 8772 3028 8773 3033 8769
      3032 8757 3032 8760 3030 8762 3030 8757
      3027 8757 3027 8758 3025 8770 3026 8770
      3026 8772 3024 8776
TIME...MOT...LOC 1840Z 014DEG 12KT 3029 8764

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:15 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:48 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
Jul 19, 11:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	25 min
Jul 19, 12:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	28 min
Jul 19, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Jul 19, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	34 min
Jul 19, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	41 min
Jul 19, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		46 min
Jul 19, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Jul 19, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	35 min
Jul 19, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		54 min
Jul 19, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		57 min
Jul 19, 5:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	3 hr
Jul 19, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	62 min
Jul 19, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		31 min
Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		60 min
Jul 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	66 min
Jul 19, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	53 min

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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.