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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Sep 25, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 25, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 25, 6:37 AM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 6:37 AM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 5:19 AM CDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 519 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-261030- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-MOBILE INLAND-BALDWIN INLAND-MOBILE CENTRAL- BALDWIN CENTRAL-MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND- ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-SANTA ROSA COASTAL- OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 519 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-261030- NORTHERN MOBILE BAY-SOUTHERN MOBILE BAY-MISSISSIPPI SOUND- PERDIDO BAY-PENSACOLA BAY SYSTEM-CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 519 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 2:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 200 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 ALZ264-266-251930- BALDWIN CENTRAL AL-BALDWIN COASTAL AL- 200 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM CDT... AT 200 PM CDT...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FOLEY... MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GULF SHORES...FOLEY...ORANGE BEACH... MAGNOLIA SPRINGS AND BON SECOUR. 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 3044 8783 3047 8762 3019 8752 3015 8783 TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 350DEG 14KT 3038 8772 RR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 6:35 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Sep 25, 7:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Sep 25, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 33 min |
| Sep 25, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Sep 25, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Sep 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 13 min |
| Sep 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 44 min |
| Sep 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Sep 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Sep 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Sep 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 31 min |
| Sep 25, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Sep 25, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 31 min |
| Sep 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 38 min |
| Sep 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 52 min |
| Sep 25, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 64 min |
| Sep 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 63 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.