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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 24, 2015Conecuh County, Alabama

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2015-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 819 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2015-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBCovington66 min
Jul 24, 7:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBWashington54 min
Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBMobile50 min
Jul 24, 9:04 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB56 min
Jul 24, 9:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBMobile45 min
Jul 25, 5:56 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB64 min
Jul 25, 6:51 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB84 min
Jul 25, 8:21 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB54 min
Jul 25, 2:36 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB84 min
Jul 25, 2:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBMobile23 min
Jul 25, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile33 min
Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB55 min
Jul 25, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB63 min
Jul 25, 4:47 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB58 min
Jul 25, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB90 min
Jul 25, 5:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB87 min
Jul 25, 3:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBOkaloosa43 min
Jul 25, 11:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBWayne44 min
Jul 25, 12:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBGeorge, Greene55 min
Jul 25, 1:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBGeorge55 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.