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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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 22, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
112
WWUS84 KMOB 222221
SPSMOB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
521 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2016
ALZ262>264-222300-
BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-MOBILE CENTRAL AL-BALDWIN INLAND AL-
521 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WEST
CENTRAL BALDWIN AND CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CDT...
AT 521 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MIDTOWN
MOBILE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MIDTOWN MOBILE...DOWNTOWN MOBILE...PRICHARD...DAPHNE...CHICKASAW...
SPANISH FORT...I65 AND I165 AND I10 AND I65.
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 3060 8817 3078 8818 3080 8807 3079 8802
3080 8801 3079 8801 3079 8799 3080 8799
3081 8800 3083 8783 3056 8783
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 268DEG 10KT 3070 8809
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 26 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.