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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 31, 2016Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2016, 4:06 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 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 31, 2016, 4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 30, 6:52 PM CDT, 21 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 6:52 PM CDT, 21 hours 14 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
Jul 31, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler	49 min
Jul 31, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		62 min
Jul 31, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	49 min
Jul 31, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	42 min
Jul 31, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler	43 min
Jul 31, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	15 min
Jul 31, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	41 min
Jul 31, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	49 min
Jul 31, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	39 min
Jul 31, 3:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Jul 31, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	38 min
Jul 31, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	49 min
Jul 31, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	38 min
Jul 31, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	37 min
Jul 31, 4:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	50 min
Jul 31, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	18 min
Jul 31, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	50 min
Jul 31, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	51 min
Jul 31, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	44 min
Jul 31, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	59 min
Jul 31, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	55 min
Jul 31, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Stone	65 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.