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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT for Conecuh 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
- Jul 24, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Conecuh County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1327 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
523 WWUS84 KMOB 250021 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 721 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015 ALZ056-059-250100- ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL- 721 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... NORTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA AND SOUTHERN CONECUH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 721 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR REPTON...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BREWTON... EVERGREEN... CASTLEBERRY... I65 AND CR 29... I65 AND AL 83... I65 AND CR 6... I65 AND US 84... 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 3110 8703 3137 8728 3158 8702 3137 8668 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 319DEG 31KT 3146 8716 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 66 min |
| Jul 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Jul 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Jul 25, 6:51 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Jul 25, 8:21 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Jul 25, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Jul 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 23 min |
| Jul 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Jul 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Jul 25, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Jul 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Jul 25, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Jul 25, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 43 min |
| Jul 25, 11:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 12:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George, Greene | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 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.