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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

November 30, 2016Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Nov 30, 2016, 4:21 AM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. 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: Nov 30, 2016, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
Expired: Nov 30, 2016, 5:00 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 488 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 15.4

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The text

As transmitted.

228 
WWUS84 KMOB 301021
SPSMOB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
421 AM CST WED NOV 30 2016
 
ALZ051-052-MSZ067-076-301100-
WASHINGTON AL-CHOCTAW AL-WAYNE MS-GREENE MS-
421 AM CST WED NOV 30 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SOUTH
CENTRAL CHOCTAW...NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE AND
NORTH CENTRAL GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM CST...

AT 420 AM CST...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF
STATE LINE...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILLRY...BUCKATUNNA...STATE LINE AND SILAS. 

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3133 8864 3143 8874 3180 8832 3159 8812
TIME...MOT...LOC 1020Z 230DEG 29KT 3142 8864 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 5:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	48 min
Nov 30, 7:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	60 min
Nov 30, 8:04 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	41 min
Nov 30, 9:36 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	54 min
Nov 30, 10:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Nov 30, 10:07 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		38 min
Nov 30, 10:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		41 min
Nov 30, 10:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Monroe, Wilcox	61 min
Nov 30, 10:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe	55 min
Nov 30, 10:58 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		62 min
Nov 30, 11:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile	54 min
Nov 30, 11:09 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		51 min
Nov 30, 11:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw	61 min
Nov 30, 11:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Nov 30, 11:48 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		57 min
Nov 30, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	41 min
Nov 30, 11:55 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		80 min
Nov 30, 11:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	62 min
Nov 30, 12:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	50 min
Nov 30, 12:40 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		35 min
Nov 30, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	65 min
Nov 30, 1:01 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Nov 30, 1:18 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		42 min
Nov 30, 1:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	46 min
Nov 30, 2:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	22 min
Nov 30, 2:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		92 min
Nov 30, 10:04 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	41 min
Nov 30, 10:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	50 min
Nov 30, 11:33 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	27 min
Nov 30, 12:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	65 min
Nov 30, 1:23 PM CST	High Surf Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	5 hr
Nov 30, 1:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	64 min
Nov 30, 3:37 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	38 min
Nov 30, 8:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	62 min
Nov 30, 9:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George, Greene	62 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.