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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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 9, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
893 WWUS84 KMOB 092012 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 312 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2015 ALZ055>057-092115- BUTLER AL-MONROE AL-CONECUH AL- 312 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER...NORTHEASTERN MONROE AND NORTHEASTERN CONECUH IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 415 PM CDT... AT 311 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR I65 AND AL 10...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GEORGIANA... I65 AND CR 7... I65 AND AL 106... THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM 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 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 3186 8674 3173 8663 3148 8687 3177 8711 TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 052DEG 16KT 3177 8676 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Aug 9, 5:32 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | MOB | Mobile | 13 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:32 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 37 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 61 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.