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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2016, 8:10 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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 22, 2016, 8:10 AM CDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2016, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 22, 6:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 6:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 627 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2016 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-231200- 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- 627 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TODAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW TO MID 90S OUTSIDE OF RAIN AREAS...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES GENERALLY RANGING FROM AROUND 103 TO 107. ISOLATED LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY REACH AS HIGH AS 108 TO 110. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH LOCALIZED STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS...POSSIBLY UP TO 50 TO 60 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY MID TO LATE EVENING... WITH JUST A FEW LINGERING OVERNIGHT. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WILL GENERALLY BE FROM THE NORTHEAST TO THE SOUTHWEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED DAILY THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AT TIMES... ACCOMPANIED WITH BRIEF STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. AWAY FROM THE COOLING EFFECTS OF THUNDERSTORMS...ELEVATED HEAT INDEX VALUES CONTINUE...CLIMBING INTO THE 102 TO 107 DEGREE RANGE ACROSS SOME AREAS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ISOLATED LOCATIONS COULD EXPERIENCE SLIGHTLY HIGHER HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 110. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-231200- 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- 627 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 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 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING GENERALLY SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH TODAY ACROSS AREA BAYS AND NEAR SHORE GULF WATERS. WINDS...WAVES...AND SEAS WILL BE LOCALLY HIGHER NEAR THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOWER VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THE STRONGER MARINE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WINDS...WAVES...AND SEAS WILL BE LOCALLY HIGHER NEAR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOWER VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THE STRONGER MARINE STORMS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:10 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 7:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 9:04 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Jul 22, 9:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Jul 22, 10:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 10:49 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Jul 22, 10:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 11:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 11:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 67 min |
| Jul 22, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa | 119 min |
| Jul 22, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 58 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.