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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this wind advisory at Dec 28, 2015, 2:38 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2015, 2:38 AM CST (08:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
055 WWUS74 KMOB 280838 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 238 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA... .EXPECT GUSTY WINDS AT 20 TO 30 KNOTS WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS WELL AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. ALZ263>266-FLZ202-204-206-281800- /O.NEW.KMOB.WI.Y.0011.151228T0838Z-151228T1800Z/ MOBILE CENTRAL-BALDWIN CENTRAL-MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL- ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOBILE...PRICHARD...THEODORE...DAPHNE... FAIRHOPE...FOLEY...SPANISH FORT...GRAND BAY...DAUPHIN ISLAND... BAYOU LA BATRE...GULF SHORES...PENSACOLA...ENSLEY...GULF BREEZE... WRIGHT...FORT WALTON BEACH...NICEVILLE...DESTIN...SEMINOLE... EGLIN AFB...VALPARAISO 238 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. * TIMING...THROUGH NOON CDT TODAY. * WINDS...20 TO 30 KNOTS WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS DRIVING FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES FROM TREE DAMAGE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 3:16 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 15 hr |
| Dec 28, 7:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 59 min |
| Dec 28, 8:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 2 min |
| Dec 28, 8:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 41 min |
| Dec 28, 8:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Dec 28, 9:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Dec 28, 9:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 6 days |
| Dec 28, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| Dec 28, 9:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 9:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 53 min |
| Dec 28, 10:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 10:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 57 min |
| Dec 28, 10:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 15 min |
| Dec 28, 11:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 36 min |
| Dec 28, 12:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 88 min |
| Dec 28, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 44 min |
| Dec 28, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 48 min |
| Dec 28, 1:59 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Dec 28, 6:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 6:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Dec 28, 6:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 46 min |
| Dec 28, 7:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 57 min |
| Dec 28, 7:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Dec 28, 7:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 46 min |
| Dec 28, 7:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 42 min |
| Dec 28, 7:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 7:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 42 min |
| Dec 28, 8:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Monroe | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 8:06 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Dec 28, 8:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 39 min |
| Dec 28, 8:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 8:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 62 min |
| Dec 28, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Dec 28, 8:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 46 min |
| Dec 28, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 41 min |
| Dec 28, 9:27 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 28, 9:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 13 min |
| Dec 28, 10:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 44 min |
| Dec 28, 11:16 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Dec 28, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 26 min |
| Dec 28, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler | 12 min |
| Dec 28, 12:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 96 min |
| Dec 28, 12:14 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 39 min |
| Dec 28, 1:52 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 35 min |
| Dec 28, 2:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 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.