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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 5:47 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
857 WWUS84 KMOB 052247 SPSMOB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 547 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ALZ057-052315- BUTLER AL- 547 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 547 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GEORGIANA... OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF GREENVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GEORGIANA. 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 3176 8679 3177 8658 3157 8650 3155 8682 TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 355DEG 4KT 3170 8668 $$
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, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 31 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 |
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.