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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2018, 5:50 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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 30, 2018, 5:50 AM CDT (10:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2018, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 30, 3:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Mobile AL 453 AM CDT Wed May 30 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-311000- Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal-Santa Rosa Coastal- Okaloosa Coastal- 453 AM CDT Wed May 30 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/mob (see Fast Access Product Section) for more information about the following hazards. High Rip Current Risk. Storms could be locally strong at times, containing brief strong wind gusts, locally heavy downpours and frequent lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/mob (see Fast Access Product Section) for more information about the following hazards. High Rip Current Risk. Storms could be locally strong at times, containing brief strong wind gusts, locally heavy downpours and frequent lightning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ALZ051>060-261>264-FLZ201-203-205-GMZ633-MSZ067-075-076-078-079- 311000- Choctaw-Washington-Clarke-Wilcox-Monroe-Conecuh-Butler-Crenshaw- Escambia-Covington-Mobile Inland-Baldwin Inland-Mobile Central- Baldwin Central-Escambia Inland-Santa Rosa Inland-Okaloosa Inland- Perdido Bay-Wayne-Perry-Greene-Stone-George- 453 AM CDT Wed May 30 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Alabama, southwest Alabama, northwest Florida, southeast Mississippi and the coastal waters of Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Storms could be locally strong at times, containing brief strong wind gusts, locally heavy downpours and frequent lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Storms could be locally strong at times, containing brief strong wind gusts, locally heavy downpours and frequent lightning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. GMZ630>632-634>636-650-655-670-675-311000- Northern Mobile Bay-Southern Mobile Bay-Mississippi Sound- Pensacola Bay System-Western Choctawhatchee Bay- Eastern Choctawhatchee Bay- Coastal waters from Pensacola FL to Pascagoula MS out 20 NM- Coastal waters from Okaloosa Walton County Line FL to Pensacola FL out 20 NM-Waters from Pensacola FL to Pascagoula MS from 20 to 60 NM- Waters from Okaloosa Walton County Line FL to Pensacola FL from 20 to 60 NM- 453 AM CDT Wed May 30 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the coastal waters of Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Frequent lightning activity, brief strong wind gusts and locally heavy, visibility reducing rains likely in any stronger isolated to scattered marine storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Frequent lightning activity, brief strong wind gusts and locally heavy, visibility reducing rains likely in any stronger isolated to scattered marine storms. An increase in westerly winds brings a build in seas by the weekend.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 3:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:35 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| May 30, 3:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 59 min |
| May 30, 5:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 27 min | |
| May 30, 7:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| May 30, 10:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 119 min |
| May 30, 11:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 43 min |
| May 30, 11:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 92 min |
| May 30, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 95 min |
| May 30, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 95 min |
| May 30, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 56 min |
| May 30, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 43 min |
| May 30, 3:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 116 min |
| May 30, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| May 30, 3:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 48 min |
| May 30, 3:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington | 113 min |
| May 30, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 49 min |
| May 30, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 41 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.