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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this freeze watch at Nov 19, 2016, 4:14 AM CST for 12 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Nov 21, 2016, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 19, 2016, 4:14 AM CST (10:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 21, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 20, 2016, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Nov 18, 11:54 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 11:54 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 9:55 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Crenshaw, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 19, 3:42 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 23 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Alabama, 2016Freeze Watches in Mississippi, 2016Freeze Watches in Florida, 2016Every freeze watch in 2016
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.