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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 1:50 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 85 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
- Aug 5, 2015, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 5, 4:53 AM CDT, 8 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 4:53 AM CDT, 8 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 5:39 AM CDT, 8 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 539 AM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-061045- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-MOBILE INLAND-BALDWIN INLAND-MOBILE CENTRAL- BALDWIN CENTRAL-MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND- ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-SANTA ROSA COASTAL- OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 539 AM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BETTER COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. GUSTY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY MOST OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE MOSTLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 105 AND 110 DEGREES ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION THIS WEEKEND INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BECOME NECESSARY EACH DAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE GUSTY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-061045- NORTHERN MOBILE BAY-SOUTHERN MOBILE BAY-MISSISSIPPI SOUND- PERDIDO BAY-PENSACOLA BAY SYSTEM-CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 539 AM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER NEAR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE HIGHER NEAR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TUESDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:50 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
150 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015
ALZ261>265-052015-
BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-MOBILE INLAND AL-MOBILE CENTRAL AL-
MOBILE COASTAL AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-
150 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CENTRAL
BALDWIN...INLAND MOBILE...CENTRAL MOBILE...COASTAL MOBILE AND INLAND
BALDWIN IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 315 PM CDT...
AT 145 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TILLMANS
CORNER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NEAR
SEMMES...ALSO MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. MORE STORMS DEVELOPING TO THE
WEST WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS THIS SAME AREA THROUGH 315 PM...
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOBILE... PRICHARD... DAPHNE...
FAIRHOPE... SARALAND... BAY MINETTE...
SPANISH FORT... SATSUMA... CHICKASAW...
CREOLA... GRAND BAY... MIDTOWN MOBILE...
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 OR 40
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 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.
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
GREATLY RESTRICT VISIBILITY AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS...WHICH MAY CAUSE VEHICLES TO HYDROPLANE. TRAVELERS ARE
URGED TO USE CAUTION.
LAT...LON 3045 8791 3075 8793 3065 8793 3068 8797
3072 8797 3068 8798 3071 8798 3074 8803
3067 8802 3067 8803 3075 8804 3046 8810
3046 8840 3093 8840 3097 8779 3045 8776
TIME...MOT...LOC 1845Z 261DEG 15KT 3064 8819The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:09 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 96 min | |
| Aug 5, 6:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Aug 5, 8:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 86 min |
| Aug 5, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 6:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 60 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.