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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2017, 12:21 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 15, 2017, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
461 WWUS84 KMOB 151721 SPSMOB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mobile AL 1221 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2017 ALZ263-264-151800- Baldwin Central AL-Mobile Central AL- 1221 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2017 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CENTRAL MOBILE AND WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM CDT... At 1221 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located over Downtown Mobile, moving southeast at 5 mph. Winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Midtown Mobile, Downtown Mobile, Prichard, Daphne, Chickasaw, Spanish Fort, I65 And I165 and I10 And I65. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. && LAT...LON 3064 8818 3079 8807 3068 8779 3043 8799 TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 303DEG 6KT 3068 8806 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 56 min |
| Jun 15, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Jun 15, 10:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 89 min |
| Jun 15, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 11:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 12:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 12:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 1:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 1:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 1:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 1:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 85 min |
| Jun 15, 2:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Jun 15, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Marengo | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 71 min |
| Jun 15, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 72 min |
| Jun 15, 9:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 96 min |
| Jun 15, 10:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 69 min |
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.