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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this wind advisory at Mar 8, 2016, 12:32 PM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 4 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2016, 12:32 PM CST (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
270 WWUS74 KMOB 081832 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1232 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... .A STRONG SOUTHEAST WIND FLOW WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE OVER LOWER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. ALZ052-059-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-090100- /O.NEW.KMOB.WI.Y.0007.160308T1832Z-160309T0100Z/ WASHINGTON-ESCAMBIA-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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHATOM...MILLRY...ATMORE...BREWTON... FLOMATON...SARALAND...MOBILE...PRICHARD...THEODORE... BAY MINETTE...DAPHNE...FAIRHOPE...FOLEY...SPANISH FORT... BAYOU LA BATRE...DAUPHIN ISLAND...GRAND BAY...GULF SHORES... CENTURY...MOLINO...ENSLEY...PENSACOLA...JAY...MILTON... GULF BREEZE...CRESTVIEW...DESTIN...EGLIN AFB... FORT WALTON BEACH...NICEVILLE...SEMINOLE...VALPARAISO...WRIGHT... WAYNESBORO...BEAUMONT...NEW AUGUSTA...RICHTON...LEAKESVILLE... MCLAIN...WIGGINS...LUCEDALE 1232 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * WINDS...20 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 30 MPH OR SLIGHTLY HIGHER. | * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:54 AM CST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 days |
| Mar 8, 9:54 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 4 days |
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.