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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Sep 2, 2018, 6:57 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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
- Sep 2, 2018, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2018, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 2, 6:29 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 6:29 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 ALZ265-266-032200- Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... ...TROPICAL STORM WATCH IN EFFECT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Alabama. .DAY ONE...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. Tropical Storm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. 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. Tropical Storm Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required into the middle of the week. ALZ263-264-032200- Mobile Central-Baldwin Central- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 ...TROPICAL STORM WATCH IN EFFECT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Alabama. .DAY ONE...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. Tropical Storm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/mob (see Fast Access Product Section) for more information about the following hazards. Tropical Storm Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required into the middle of the week. ALZ051>060-261-262-FLZ201-203-205-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-032200- Choctaw-Washington-Clarke-Wilcox-Monroe-Conecuh-Butler-Crenshaw- Escambia-Covington-Mobile Inland-Baldwin Inland-Escambia Inland- Santa Rosa Inland-Okaloosa Inland-Wayne-Perry-Greene-Stone-George- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Alabama, southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. FLZ202-204-206-032200- Escambia Coastal-Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. 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. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required into the middle of the week. GMZ630>633-650-655-670-675-032200- Northern Mobile Bay-Southern Mobile Bay-Mississippi Sound- Perdido 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- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 ...TROPICAL STORM WATCH IN EFFECT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the coastal waters of Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...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. Tropical Storm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/mob (see Fast Access Product Section) for more information about the following hazards. Tropical Storm Watch. GMZ634>636-032200- Pensacola Bay System-Western Choctawhatchee Bay- Eastern Choctawhatchee Bay- 412 PM CDT Sun Sep 2 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the coastal waters of Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 4:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 9:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 50 min | |
| Sep 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 13 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 26 min |
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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.