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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 3:02 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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 3, 2016, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 1468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
843
WWUS84 KMOB 032002
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
302 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016
ALZ263-265-032045-
MOBILE CENTRAL AL-MOBILE COASTAL AL-
302 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM CDT...
AT 302 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BAYOU LA
BATRE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TILLMANS CORNER...THEODORE...GRAND BAY...BAYOU LA BATRE...
ALABAMA PORT AND CODEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3039 8840 3046 8840 3062 8827 3059 8810
3029 8809
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 020DEG 1KT 3045 8826
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:09 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington, Wilcox | 15 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 48 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.