Alert archive / Alabama / Special Weather Statements in 2016

Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 5, 2016Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 1:02 PM CDT for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 5, 2016, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2016, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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.

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: 723 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 5, 9:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 9:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
102 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

ALZ065-066-051845-
DALE AL-COFFEE AL-
102 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COFFEE AND DALE COUNTIES UNTIL
145 PM CDT...

AT 102 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR
LOUISVILLE TO 7 MILES NORTH OF NEW BROCKTON TO NEAR OPP...AND MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DALEVILLE...ELBA...FORT RUCKER...OZARK...ENTERPRISE...LEVEL PLAINS...
NEWTON...NEW BROCKTON...ARITON...LEE...CLINTONVILLE...SKIPPERVILLE...
PHILLIPS CROSSROADS...BATTENS CROSSROADS...CLOWERS CROSSROADS...HOOPER
STAGE FIELD...LOWE ARMY HELIPORT...ARGUTA...JAVA AND GREATER SALEM
CHURCH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3162 8600 3162 8542 3148 8542 3124 8578
      3125 8619 3142 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 1802Z 267DEG 24KT 3180 8563 3148 8597 3126 8634

25-CAMP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:02 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	40 hr
Jul 5, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty	23 min
Jul 5, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Henry	47 min
Jul 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	50 min
Jul 5, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Houston	37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.