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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 7:43 AM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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 4, 2016, 7:43 AM CDT (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
312 WWUS84 KMOB 041243 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 743 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ALZ262-264-266-FLZ201>204-041345- BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-BALDWIN COASTAL AL- ESCAMBIA COASTAL FL-SANTA ROSA COASTAL FL-SANTA ROSA INLAND FL- ESCAMBIA INLAND FL- 743 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN...ESCAMBIA AND WEST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTIES UNTIL 845 AM CDT... AT 743 AM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRATT TO NEAR GONZALEZ...AND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PENSACOLA...ENSLEY...GONZALEZ...PACE...LILLIAN AND MOLINO. 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 3092 8767 3097 8733 3061 8714 3038 8747 TIME...MOT...LOC 1243Z 050DEG 11KT 3087 8736 3064 8724 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 35 min | |
| Aug 3, 9:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:04 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Aug 4, 7:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Aug 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 9:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 6:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 1:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 2 hr |
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.