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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

June 27, 2016Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2016, 8:37 AM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2016, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Washington County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:40 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 Jun 27, 6:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
552 AM CDT MON JUN 27 2016

ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-281100-
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-
552 AM CDT MON JUN 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

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING. A FEW MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH WINDS GUSTING TO
60 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE ACTIVITY IS NOT
EXPECTED.

HEAT INDICES TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO TOP OUT IN THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE
RANGE THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

DAILY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
THROUGH FRIDAY. A FEW MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING
WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT
EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY.

GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-281100-
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-
552 AM CDT MON JUN 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

PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT OVER
THE COASTAL WATERS. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HIGH
WINDS AND WAVES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY OVER
THE COASTAL WATERS. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HIGH
WINDS AND WAVES.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 8:37 AM 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
Jun 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	47 min
Jun 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Jun 26, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	45 min
Jun 26, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Jun 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	43 min
Jun 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	48 min
Jun 26, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	50 min
Jun 26, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	42 min
Jun 27, 12:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		66 min
Jun 27, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	29 min
Jun 27, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	51 min
Jun 27, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	43 min
Jun 27, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	29 min
Jun 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	63 min
Jun 27, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	66 min
Jun 27, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	58 min
Jun 27, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	59 min
Jun 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	42 min
Jun 27, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	51 min
Jun 27, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	61 min
Jun 27, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	43 min
Jun 27, 5:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Stone	54 min
Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George, Greene	60 min
Jun 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Perry	48 min
Jun 27, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	53 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.