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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 7:12 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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 6, 2016, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 3269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
615
WWUS84 KMOB 070012
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
712 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2016
ALZ263-265-070100-
MOBILE CENTRAL AL-MOBILE COASTAL AL-
712 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT...
AT 711 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THEODORE.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY WEST.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TILLMANS CORNER...THEODORE...
NORTHEASTERN GRAND BAY AND MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT.
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.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3052 8840 3060 8841 3075 8825 3057 8809
3042 8821
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 131DEG 3KT 3057 8825
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Aug 6, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Aug 6, 11:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Aug 6, 11:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Aug 6, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 52 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.