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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2020, 5:49 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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 13, 2020, 5:49 AM CDT (10:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2020, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 2514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 Jul 13, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 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 |
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| Jul 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 53 min |
| Jul 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 72 min |
| Jul 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| Jul 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Jul 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 13 min |
| Jul 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 12, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Jul 12, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| Jul 12, 11:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Jul 13, 5:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Jul 13, 6:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 71 min | |
| Jul 13, 2:29 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 29 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 29 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Jul 13, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 17 min |
| Jul 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 21 min | |
| Jul 12, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 52 min |
| Jul 12, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 1:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 43 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.