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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 1, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
079 WWUS84 KMOB 011949 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 249 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 ALZ059-FLZ201-203-012030- ESCAMBIA AL-SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-ESCAMBIA INLAND FL- 249 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SOUTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA ALABAMA...NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA FLORIDA AND NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT... AT 249 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER POLLARD...OR NEAR FLOMATON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTURY...FLOMATON...JAY AND POLLARD. LAT...LON 3089 8700 3083 8718 3107 8740 3119 8715 TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 129DEG 10KT 3101 8718 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 43 min |
| May 31, 8:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Wayne | 118 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.