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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT for Covington 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 14, 2020, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2020, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 69 min | |
| Aug 14, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 85 min |
| Aug 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 2:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry, Wayne | 55 min |
| Aug 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George, Greene, Stone | 58 min |
| Aug 14, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 52 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2020Every special weather statement in 2020
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.