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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at May 17, 2020, 2:33 PM CDT for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 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 17, 2020, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2020, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 May 17, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Mobile AL 446 AM CDT Sun May 17 2020 ALZ051>060-261>264-FLZ201-203-205-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-181000- 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- Wayne-Perry-Greene-Stone-George- 446 AM CDT Sun May 17 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Alabama, southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi. .DAY ONE...Today and 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. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-181000- Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal-Santa Rosa Coastal- Okaloosa Coastal- 446 AM CDT Sun May 17 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. There is a moderate risk of rip currents along area beaches today and tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a moderate risk of rip currents along area beaches Monday and Monday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. GMZ630>636-650-655-670-675-181000- Northern Mobile Bay-Southern Mobile Bay-Mississippi Sound- Perdido Bay-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- 446 AM CDT Sun May 17 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the coastal waters of Alabama and northwest Florida. .DAY ONE...Today and 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, May 17, 2:33 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
233 PM CDT Sun May 17 2020
ALZ051-052-MSZ067-075-076-172030-
Choctaw AL-Washington AL-Perry MS-Greene MS-Wayne MS-
233 PM CDT Sun May 17 2020
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHWESTERN CHOCTAW...NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON...NORTHERN PERRY...
WAYNE AND NORTHERN GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT...
At 231 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of
Richton, moving northeast at 35 mph. Other isoilated thunderstorms
will continue developing near and around this storm during the
next hour.
Wind gusts of 45 to 55 mph and pea-sized hail will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Waynesboro, Richton, Clara, Beaumont, New Augusta, Millry, State
Line, Buckatunna, Silas, Gilbertown and Toxey.
LAT...LON 3143 8915 3143 8894 3182 8894 3185 8865
3189 8848 3200 8846 3198 8808 3195 8812
3194 8811 3116 8858 3115 8914
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 205DEG 30KT 3135 8881The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 10:44 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 32 hr |
| May 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| May 17, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 49 min |
| May 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 47 min |
| May 17, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| May 17, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 45 min |
| May 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 45 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.