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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 19, 2019Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this high surf advisory at Jan 19, 2019, 3:44 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 19, 2019, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2019, 3:44 AM CST (09:44 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 19, 2019, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 20, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 285 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Jan 18, 11:53 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 11:53 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 8:12 PM CST	Wind Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more	34 hr
Jan 19, 3:37 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		6 hr
Jan 19, 10:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	41 min
Jan 19, 11:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	44 min
Jan 19, 11:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	43 min
Jan 19, 12:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington, Wilcox	45 min
Jan 19, 12:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	48 min
Jan 19, 12:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	47 min
Jan 19, 2:33 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		57 min
Jan 19, 2:34 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		56 min
Jan 19, 2:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		32 min
Jan 19, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	30 min
Jan 19, 3:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		32 min
Jan 19, 3:30 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		15 min
Jan 19, 4:11 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		94 min
Jan 19, 4:13 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		32 min
Jan 19, 4:40 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		35 min
Jan 19, 10:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	52 min
Jan 19, 10:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	52 min
Jan 19, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone	40 min
Jan 19, 12:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George	45 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.