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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Dec 21, 2015, 10:59 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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
- Dec 21, 2015, 10:59 PM CST (04:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2015, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 Dec 21, 9:42 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 9:42 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 21, 2:38 PM CST, 8 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 238 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-222045- 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- 238 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS EVENING THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS COASTAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA... ROUGHLY FROM 9 PM TO 4 AM. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND A BRIEF TORNADO ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ALONG COASTAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. ISOLATED INSTANCES OF FLASH FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS INCREASING ACROSS THE REGION EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 65 CORRIDOR. TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALL THREATS. MORE DETAILS ON THE TIMING AND THREAT AREAS WILL BE PROVIDED AS THE EVENT DRAWS CLOSER IN TIME. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL OF 3 TO 6 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED. ISOLATED INSTANCES OF FLASH FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS COASTAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA...WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING OF URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BECOME NECESSARY ON WEDNESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-222045- 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- 238 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS MAY IMPACT THE NEAR SHORE COASTAL WATERS LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG. AREAS OF FOG...DENSE AT TIMES...WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER BAYS AND INLAND WATERWAYS AND ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT MAY DEVELOP OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 21, 9:49 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
949 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015
ALZ261-263-265-220445-
MOBILE INLAND AL-MOBILE CENTRAL AL-MOBILE COASTAL AL-
949 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...INLAND MOBILE...CENTRAL MOBILE AND COASTAL MOBILE IN
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 1045 PM CST...
AT 949 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR WADE TO HELENA TO NEAR PASCAGOULA...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOBILE... PRICHARD... SARALAND...
SATSUMA... CHICKASAW... BAYOU LA BATRE...
CREOLA... DAUPHIN ISLAND... GRAND BAY...
MIDTOWN MOBILE... TILLMANS CORNER... THEODORE...
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS 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 THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
THESE STORMS 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.
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. 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 3032 8818 3036 8819 3037 8824 3032 8826
3038 8824 3039 8829 3037 8831 3041 8835
3039 8840 3079 8841 3099 8796 3072 8804
3075 8804 3074 8805 3035 8812 3032 8816
3026 8813 3025 8808 3023 8830
TIME...MOT...LOC 0349Z 239DEG 35KT 3067 8855 3048 8848 3032 8849Special weather statement, Dec 21, 10:59 PM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1059 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015
ALZ059-262-264-266-FLZ201>204-220545-
BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-ESCAMBIA AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-BALDWIN COASTAL AL-
ESCAMBIA COASTAL FL-SANTA ROSA COASTAL FL-SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-
ESCAMBIA INLAND FL-
1059 PM CST MON DEC 21 2015
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...CENTRAL BALDWIN...INLAND BALDWIN AND COASTAL BALDWIN IN
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA IN SOUTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA...AND COASTAL ESCAMBIA...COASTAL SANTA ROSA...INLAND SANTA
ROSA AND INLAND ESCAMBIA IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 1145 PM CST...
AT 1057 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR STAPLETON TO NEAR SUMMERDALE TO NEAR
GULF SHORES...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PENSACOLA... FOLEY... MILTON...
BAY MINETTE... GULF BREEZE... ORANGE BEACH...
BREWTON... ROBERTSDALE... CENTURY...
LOXLEY... FLOMATON... PACE...
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS 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 THESE STORMS HAVE 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 EXPECTED. 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 3023 8787 3029 8775 3077 8795 3112 8711
3088 8679 3044 8688 3045 8688 3060 8702
3040 8707 3044 8690 3040 8689 3036 8708
3036 8704 3038 8690 3037 8690 3023 8786
TIME...MOT...LOC 0457Z 247DEG 48KT 3078 8782 3052 8764 3022 8788The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 9:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| Dec 21, 9:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Dec 21, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 50 min |
| Dec 21, 10:22 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Dec 21, 11:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Dec 22, 12:38 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Dec 22, 12:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Dec 22, 2:15 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 22, 4:15 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Dec 22, 7:37 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 83 min |
| Dec 22, 7:44 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 14 hr | |
| Dec 22, 8:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 4 days |
| Dec 22, 8:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 18 days |
| Dec 22, 3:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 62 min |
| Dec 22, 5:21 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Dec 22, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 45 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2015Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2015Every special weather statement in 2015
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.