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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

June 16, 2016Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2016, 8:13 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 16, 2016, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2016-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2016-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

792 
WWUS84 KMOB 170113
SPSMOB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
813 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016
 
ALZ059-FLZ203-170145-
ESCAMBIA AL-SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-
813 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA AND NORTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES UNTIL 845
PM CDT...

AT 813 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RIVERVIEW...
OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BREWTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BREWTON...EAST BREWTON AND RIVERVIEW. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3081 8701 3108 8711 3114 8696 3096 8679
      3093 8679
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 328DEG 22KT 3102 8697 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia23 min
Jun 16, 9:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBClarke31 min
Jun 16, 11:17 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB43 min
Jun 17, 5:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB92 min
Jun 17, 7:00 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB60 min
Jun 17, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw56 min
Jun 17, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Clarke, Wilcox42 min
Jun 17, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe and 2 more58 min
Jun 17, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more60 min
Jun 17, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Escambia, Mobile66 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB84 min
Jun 16, 8:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia26 min
Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia31 min
Jun 16, 9:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBOkaloosa25 min
Jun 17, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa67 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.