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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 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 27, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2016, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Apr 27, 4:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 4:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 6:20 AM CDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 620 AM CDT WED APR 27 2016 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-281130- 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- 620 AM CDT WED APR 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL GENERALLY IMPACT LOCATIONS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM WIGGINS MS TO CAMDEN AL THIS AFTERNOON...AND NORTHWEST OF I-65 AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE STRONGEST STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA ON THURSDAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-281130- 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- 620 AM CDT WED APR 27 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 12:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1230 PM CDT WED APR 27 2016
MSZ067-075-076-271830-
PERRY MS-WAYNE MS-GREENE MS-
1230 PM CDT WED APR 27 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE...NORTHWESTERN
GREENE AND NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT...
AT 1229 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
RICHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RICHTON AND CLARA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
ADDITIONAL UPDATES WILL BE COMING FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN MOBILE AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
&&
LAT...LON 3143 8898 3143 8894 3153 8894 3166 8878
3150 8853 3131 8865 3120 8885 3128 8899
TIME...MOT...LOC 1729Z 215DEG 19KT 3132 8888
BUTTSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 62 min |
| Apr 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| Apr 27, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 21 min | |
| Apr 27, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 33 min | |
| Apr 27, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 54 min |
| Apr 27, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Apr 27, 5:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Apr 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 15 min |
| Apr 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 49 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.