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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

March 24, 2016Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 24, 2016, 12:22 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. 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 24, 2016, 12:22 PM CDT (17:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 844 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 10:22 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	45 hr
Mar 24, 12:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	119 min
Mar 24, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		92 min
Mar 24, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	45 min
Mar 24, 1:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 24, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	44 min
Mar 24, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	49 min
Mar 24, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		86 min
Mar 24, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 1 more	59 min
Mar 24, 1:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 24, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 min
Mar 24, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	25 min
Mar 24, 2:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw	23 min
Mar 24, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw	44 min
Mar 24, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		85 min
Mar 24, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	33 min
Mar 24, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		37 min
Mar 24, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	42 min
Mar 24, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	64 min
Mar 24, 3:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	119 min
Mar 24, 11:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	George, Stone	115 min

Nearby

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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.