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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2017, 7:03 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 5, 2017, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2017, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
268 WWUS84 KMOB 060003 SPSMOB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mobile AL 703 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2017 MSZ067-075-076-060030- Perry MS-Greene MS-Wayne MS- 703 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2017 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... NORTHEASTERN PERRY...SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE AND NORTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT... At 703 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 12 miles west of State Line, or 15 miles east of Richton, moving northwest at 15 mph. Winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm. This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern Perry...southwestern Wayne and northwestern Greene Counties. 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. && LAT...LON 3139 8855 3128 8861 3137 8893 3157 8882 TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 118DEG 14KT 3137 8867 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 77 min |
| Aug 5, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 8:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 39 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.