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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 8:26 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
854
WWUS84 KMOB 020126
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
826 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016
ALZ059-261-262-264-FLZ201-203-020200-
BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-MOBILE INLAND AL-ESCAMBIA AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-
SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-ESCAMBIA INLAND FL-
826 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...CENTRAL BALDWIN...EAST CENTRAL MOBILE...SOUTHWESTERN
ESCAMBIA...NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA AND NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES
UNTIL 900 PM CDT...
AT 825 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM POLLARD TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRATT TO NEAR
STOCKTON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BAY MINETTE...CENTURY...FLOMATON...STOCKTON...STAPLETON...MOLINO...
POLLARD...BRATT AND I65 AND AL 225.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3078 8799 3105 8788 3096 8734 3105 8717
3075 8718 3066 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 016DEG 16KT 3104 8718 3089 8736 3098 8783
$$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, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 51 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.