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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 8:36 AM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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, 8:36 AM CDT (13:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 251 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.
974 WWUS84 KMOB 041336 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 836 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 FLZ201-203-041400- SANTA ROSA INLAND FL-ESCAMBIA INLAND FL- 836 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA AND NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT... AT 836 AM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JAY...OR NEAR CENTURY...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CENTURY...FLOMATON AND JAY. 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 3083 8726 3100 8730 3100 8710 3084 8704 TIME...MOT...LOC 1336Z 341DEG 12KT 3098 8720 $$
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, 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, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 62 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.