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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT for Butler County, Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
378 WWUS84 KMOB 272221 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 521 PM CDT WED APR 27 2016 ALZ056-057-060-272315- BUTLER AL-COVINGTON AL-CONECUH AL- 521 PM CDT WED APR 27 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CONECUH... NORTHWESTERN COVINGTON AND SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 518 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR EVERGREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EVERGREEN...GEORGIANA...MCKENZIE...RED LEVEL...GANTT...I65 AND CR 29...I65 AND AL 83...I65 AND CR 7...I65 AND US 84 AND I65 AND AL 106. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. SOME OF THESE THUNDERTORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3142 8641 3127 8694 3142 8706 3176 8668 TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 236DEG 27KT 3139 8693 $$
The 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, 5:37 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, 12:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 60 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 |
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.