Alert archive / Florida / Hurricane Watches in 2017
Hurricane Watch 1016, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this hurricane watch at Oct 6, 2017, 10:38 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2017, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2017, 10:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this hurricane watch 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 hurricane watch went out at Oct 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 18 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 18 hours 53 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>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 days |
| Oct 5, 10:17 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:11 PM CDT | Storm Surge Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 17 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:38 AM CDT | Hurricane Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 43 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:38 AM CDT | Storm Surge Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 48 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 43 hr |
| Oct 6, 4:23 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 42 hr |
Nearby
Hurricane Watches in Florida, 2017Every hurricane watch in 2017
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.