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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

May 30, 2016Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. 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: May 30, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 1 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 May 30, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 2:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
213 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

ALZ264-266-FLZ201>206-302000-
BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-BALDWIN COASTAL AL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL FL-
SANTA ROSA COASTAL FL-SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-ESCAMBIA INLAND FL-
OKALOOSA INLAND FL-OKALOOSA COASTAL FL-
213 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN...SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA...SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA
AND SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 209 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
MONITORING A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LILLIAN TO NEAR NAVARRE TO NEAR WRIGHT...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF
STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
STRIKES AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PENSACOLA...FERRY PASS...BRENT...WEST PENSACOLA...WRIGHT...FORT WALTON
BEACH...ENSLEY...WARRINGTON...NICEVILLE...GONZALEZ...EGLIN AFB...PACE...
MILTON...VALPARAISO...GULF BREEZE...GOULDING...MARY ESTHER...BAGDAD...LAKE
LORRAINE AND OCEAN CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3034 8759 3070 8758 3059 8646 3038 8652
      3035 8666 3030 8719
TIME...MOT...LOC 1909Z 304DEG 9KT 3051 8751 3048 8689 3049 8661

Special weather statement, May 30, 5:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	47 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.