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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 1, 2016, 7:07 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama; George County, Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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
- Mar 1, 2016, 7:07 PM CST (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Washington County, AL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
059
WWUS84 KMOB 020107
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
707 PM CST TUE MAR 1 2016
ALZ052-261-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-020145-
MOBILE INLAND AL-WASHINGTON AL-STONE MS-PERRY MS-WAYNE MS-GREENE MS-
GEORGE MS-
707 PM CST TUE MAR 1 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MOBILE...
WASHINGTON...NORTHERN GEORGE...SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE...GREENE...SOUTHERN
PERRY AND NORTHERN STONE COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CST...
AT 706 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM STATE LINE TO NEAR MAXIE...
AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WIGGINS...LUCEDALE...CHATOM...LEAKESVILLE...STATE LINE...MCLAIN...MCINTOSH...
VINEGAR BEND...DEER PARK...WAGARVILLE...FRUITDALE...TIBBIE AND LEROY.
LAT...LON 3088 8932 3091 8928 3091 8914 3101 8914
3150 8844 3152 8794 3150 8791 3145 8791
3144 8793 3142 8791 3141 8793 3139 8790
3139 8789 3133 8791 3134 8792 3131 8794
3132 8796 3130 8795 3082 8862
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 270DEG 36KT 3146 8846 3093 8921
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 8:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 57 min |
| Mar 1, 9:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 9:27 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 33 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Mississippi, 2016Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2016Every special weather statement 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.