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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2020, 12:39 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 11, 2020, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2020, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 Aug 11, 10:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 10:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:39 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1239 PM CDT Tue Aug 11 2020
ALZ054-111830-
Wilcox AL-
1239 PM CDT Tue Aug 11 2020
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM CDT...
At 1238 PM CDT, the strong hunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 11 miles southeast of Belknap to 4 miles west of
Dannelly Reservoir, and moving south at 10 mph.
Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Camden and Pine Apple.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3220 8736 3220 8733 3214 8728 3214 8725
3212 8726 3212 8725 3210 8723 3208 8719
3205 8718 3205 8686 3196 8690 3196 8691
3193 8691 3185 8694 3204 8748 3222 8738
TIME...MOT...LOC 1738Z 352DEG 10KT 3205 8692 3217 8729The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 43 min |
| Aug 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 5:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Aug 11, 6:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 45 min |
| Aug 11, 2:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 66 min |
| Aug 11, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Aug 11, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 4:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Aug 11, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 76 min |
| Aug 11, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Aug 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Aug 11, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 66 min |
| Aug 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 6:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
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.