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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2018, 3:21 PM CDT for Butler 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
- May 24, 2018, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
738
WWUS84 KMOB 242021
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
321 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2018
ALZ054>057-242100-
Wilcox AL-Conecuh AL-Monroe AL-Butler AL-
321 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2018
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHWESTERN BUTLER...NORTHEASTERN MONROE...SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX AND
NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...
At 320 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 10 miles east of
Pine Apple, or 13 miles northwest of Greenville, moving west at 10
mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Pine Apple.
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 3196 8686 3196 8675 3183 8671 3162 8697
3199 8710 3200 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 077DEG 10KT 3191 8682
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:36 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 8 days |
| May 24, 10:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 5 days |
| May 24, 11:16 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 29 hr |
| May 24, 11:16 AM CDT | High Surf Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 days |
| May 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 40 min |
| May 24, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 47 min |
| May 24, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 44 min |
| May 24, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| May 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| May 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 25 min |
| May 24, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| May 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 46 min |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 33 min |
| May 24, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 49 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.