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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 1, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2016, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 2365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
526 WWUS84 KMOB 020039 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 739 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016 ALZ056-059-262-FLZ201-020130- ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-ESCAMBIA INLAND FL- 739 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH...NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN...ESCAMBIA AND NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM CDT... AT 739 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR CASTLEBERRY TO 9 MILES EAST OF STOCKTON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BAY MINETTE...ATMORE...BREWTON...CENTURY...FLOMATON...MCCULLOUGH... EAST BREWTON...CASTLEBERRY...POLLARD...RIVERVIEW... POARCH CREEK RESERVATION...I65 AND AL 21...I65 AND AL 113... BRATT AND I65 AND CR 1. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. THESE STORMS 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 3112 8791 3137 8699 3110 8686 3082 8776 TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 003DEG 9KT 3126 8698 3104 8771 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 32 min |
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 9:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 119 min |
| Aug 2, 10:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 50 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.