Alert archive / Alabama / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 5:14 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
697 WWUS84 KMOB 032214 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 514 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016 ALZ060-032245- COVINGTON AL- 514 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM CDT... AT 514 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FLORALA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FLORALA. 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 3099 8633 3106 8632 3105 8619 3100 8619 TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 328DEG 5KT 3102 8622 $$
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, 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 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 |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2016Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.