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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 3, 2016, 11:36 AM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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 3, 2016, 11:36 AM CST (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2016, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 3, 6:38 AM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 6:38 AM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 6:18 AM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 618 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-041230- 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- 618 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-041230- 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- 618 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL DEVELOP TODAY AS MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW INCREASES AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MARINE AREA THIS EVENING... WITH MODERATE TO STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW EXPECTED THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 11:36 AM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1136 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016
ALZ051-031815-
CHOCTAW AL-
1136 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY UNTIL
1215 PM CST...
AT 1135 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
LISMAN...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LISMAN AND PENNINGTON.
LAT...LON 3231 8793 3228 8793 3228 8794 3230 8794
3230 8800 3228 8801 3228 8802 3226 8801
3218 8801 3215 8802 3214 8804 3213 8804
3211 8840 3225 8841 3230 8840
TIME...MOT...LOC 1735Z 266DEG 44KT 3222 8832The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 26 hr | |
| Mar 3, 1:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 1:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 2:36 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 2:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 3:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 5:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 5:57 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Mar 3, 2:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 52 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.