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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2018, 10:08 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Jul 21, 2018, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2018, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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 Jul 21, 7:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 7:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 10:08 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 21, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Covington | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 3:22 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 24 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 14 min |
| Jul 22, 11:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 15 min |
| Jul 22, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 1:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 18 min |
| Jul 22, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 1:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 80 min |
| Jul 22, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 43 min |
| Jul 22, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Jul 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Jul 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 26 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.