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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jan 19, 2017, 1:47 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. 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
- Jan 19, 2017, 1:47 PM CST (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2017, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jan 19, 11:37 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 11:37 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 19, 6:59 AM CST, 6 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 659 AM CST THU JAN 19 2017 ALZ051>060-261>266-FLZ201>206-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-201300- 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- 659 AM CST THU JAN 19 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS PORTIONS OF INTERIOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT NEAR SHORE COASTAL WATERS. THE FOG OVER INLAND AREAS WILL DISSIPATE BY MID MORNING...BUT WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH MIDDAY ALONG THE COAST. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR AREA BEACHES TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE STORMS FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WITH THE MAIN RISK DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADOES POSSIBLE...BUT THIS RISK IS LIMITED. ONLY NUISANCE TYPE FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS WILL MOVE RATHER QUICKLY ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...BUT LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY BE REQUIRED FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-201300- 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- 659 AM CST THU JAN 19 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE OVER BAYS...SOUNDS AND NEAR SHORE WATERS THROUGH AROUND NOON TODAY. WITH SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING IN FROM THE WEST LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING FOG POTENTIAL TONIGHT WILL BE A LITTLE LESS THAN PREVIOUS FEW NIGHTS. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MARINE AREA TODAY. INCREASED SOUTHERLY FLOW AND GRADUALLY BUILDING SEAS EXPECTED IN ADVANCE OF THE STORMS...LOCALLY HIGHER IN AND NEAR STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SEVERAL ROUNDS OF STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE MARINE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE LOCALLY HIGHER NEAR STRONGER STORMS. A STRONG WESTERLY WIND FLOW WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF FINAL ROUND OF STORMS LATE SUNDAY...WITH CONDITIONS BECOMING HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL CRAFT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 1:47 PM CST, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
147 PM CST THU JAN 19 2017
ALZ052-MSZ067-075-076-192030-
Washington AL-Perry MS-Wayne MS-Greene MS-
147 PM CST THU JAN 19 2017
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE...NORTHWESTERN GREENE
AND NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CST...
At 147 PM CST, the strong thunderstorm was located near Richton,
moving northeast at 35 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Waynesboro, Clara and Buckatunna.
LAT...LON 3144 8897 3143 8894 3147 8894 3183 8857
3174 8847 3170 8847 3170 8842 3157 8828
3125 8883 3142 8899
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 231DEG 32KT 3137 8883The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 5:26 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 94 min | |
| Jan 19, 5:26 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 64 min |
| Jan 19, 5:50 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 40 min |
| Jan 19, 3:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 46 min |
| Jan 19, 4:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 66 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.