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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

August 3, 2016Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 4:29 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Crenshaw County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

021 
WWUS84 KMOB 032129
SPSMOB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
429 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016
 
ALZ058-032215-
CRENSHAW AL-
429 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...EASTERN
CRENSHAW COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 428 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANSLEY...OR
7 MILES NORTH OF GOSHEN...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LUVERNE...BRANTLEY...GLENWOOD AND PETREY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3153 8616 3153 8620 3148 8619 3148 8628
      3152 8628 3153 8630 3193 8626 3193 8618
      3183 8618 3179 8620 3179 8615 3166 8615
      3166 8616 3165 8616 3162 8618 3162 8615
      3154 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 002DEG 20KT 3182 8613 

$$

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, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Aug 3, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		54 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.