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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 12, 2017, 11:21 AM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 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
- May 12, 2017, 11:21 AM CDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2017, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:22 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
572
WWUS84 KMOB 121621
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1121 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2017
ALZ052-053-261-263-MSZ076-079-121715-
Clarke AL-Washington AL-Mobile Central AL-Mobile Inland AL-Greene MS-
George MS-
1121 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2017
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHERN MOBILE...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON...SOUTHERN CLARKE...EASTERN
GEORGE AND EASTERN GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM CDT...
At 1120 AM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located near Lucedale,
moving northeast at 30 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Saraland, Satsuma, Citronelle, Lucedale, Creola, Leakesville,
Chunchula, Gulfcrest, Deer Park, Axis, Calvert, Mount Vernon, Semmes,
Fruitdale, McIntosh, Wilmer and Movico.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 400 PM CDT for
southwestern Alabama...and southeastern Mississippi.
LAT...LON 3074 8841 3073 8863 3134 8859 3137 8793
3112 8794 3109 8797 3107 8796 3107 8795
3090 8796 3088 8798 3088 8797 3087 8798
3087 8797 3086 8798 3086 8797 3085 8796
3073 8841
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 217DEG 27KT 3084 8852
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 61 min |
| May 12, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| May 12, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| May 12, 12:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 59 min |
| May 12, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| May 12, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 27 min |
| May 12, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 44 min |
| May 12, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| May 12, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 47 min |
| May 12, 2:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| May 12, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 54 min |
| May 12, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 60 min |
| May 12, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| May 12, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| May 12, 2:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| May 12, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| May 12, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| May 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| May 12, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| May 12, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| May 12, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| May 12, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| May 12, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 40 min |
| May 12, 10:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 48 min |
| May 12, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 60 min |
| May 12, 10:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 42 min |
| May 12, 11:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 64 min |
| May 12, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 10 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.