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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 6, 2016Conecuh County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 6, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Conecuh County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1683 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

646 
WWUS84 KMOB 061821
SPSMOB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
121 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016
 
ALZ055-056-061900-
MONROE AL-CONECUH AL-
121 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CENTRAL
CONECUH AND CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT...

AT 120 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER REPTON...OR 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONROEVILLE...FRISCO CITY...EXCEL...REPTON AND I65 AND US 84.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

THIS STORM 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 3129 8732 3140 8746 3165 8712 3143 8692
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 240DEG 16KT 3144 8721 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 9:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	32 min
Jul 6, 10:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Jul 6, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	45 min
Jul 6, 11:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	34 min
Jul 6, 12:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	43 min
Jul 6, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	38 min
Jul 6, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	45 min
Jul 6, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	40 min
Jul 6, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	24 min
Jul 6, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	36 min
Jul 6, 1:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	43 min
Jul 6, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	47 min
Jul 6, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	48 min
Jul 6, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	26 min
Jul 6, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	51 min
Jul 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	33 min
Jul 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	46 min
Jul 6, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	41 min
Jul 6, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Jul 6, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	48 min
Jul 6, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	43 min
Jul 6, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	41 min
Jul 6, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	40 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	40 min
Jul 6, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	33 min
Jul 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Perry	41 min
Jul 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	50 min

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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.