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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Apr 12, 2016, 7:09 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 12, 2016, 7:09 AM CDT (12:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Apr 12, 6:53 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 6:53 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 547 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-131100- 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- 547 AM CDT TUE APR 12 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 CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...THEN REFORM OVERNIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE MAIN THREATS THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE MAIN THREATS THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND MAY BE ELEVATED TO A HIGH RISK LATE IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-131100- 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- 547 AM CDT TUE APR 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE IN THE WEEK CONTINUING INTO THE FIRST OF THE WEEKEND.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 11, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 11, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 9:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 47 min | |
| Apr 12, 12:04 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 41 min | |
| Apr 12, 4:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 41 min |
| Apr 12, 4:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 67 min |
| Apr 12, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 35 min | |
| Apr 12, 7:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Apr 12, 11:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 8 days |
| Apr 12, 11:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 7 days |
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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.