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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 5:44 PM CDT for Wilcox 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 5, 2016, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 589 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
080
WWUS84 KMOB 052244
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
544 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
ALZ054-052315-
WILCOX AL-
544 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WEST
CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT...
AT 543 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE HILL...
OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF THOMASVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PINE HILL AND YELLOW BLUFF.
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 3213 8744 3197 8738 3193 8766 3200 8766
3200 8763 3201 8762 3211 8762
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 355DEG 4KT 3206 8754
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:51 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 16 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:27 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 47 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.