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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

August 24, 2020Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2020, 10:39 AM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. 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 24, 2020, 10:39 AM CDT (15:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2020, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 24, 9:39 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 9:39 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 10:39 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1039 AM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020

FLZ202>204-241630-
Santa Rosa Coastal FL-Escambia Coastal FL-Santa Rosa Inland FL-
1039 AM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA AND SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 AM
CDT...

At 1038 AM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 6 miles southeast
of Oriole Beach, or 9 miles southeast of Gulf Breeze, moving
northwest at 20 mph.

Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Pensacola, Ferry Pass, Brent, West Pensacola, Ensley, Warrington,
Gulf Breeze, Goulding, Myrtle Grove, Oriole Beach and Navarre.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3033 8729 3033 8722 3035 8720 3036 8726
      3033 8732 3041 8739 3044 8734 3046 8740
      3056 8723 3060 8701 3048 8680 3041 8680
      3038 8701 3038 8696 3039 8680 3038 8689
      3031 8727
TIME...MOT...LOC 1538Z 135DEG 18KT 3030 8703

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		15 min
Aug 24, 4:09 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	16 hr
Aug 24, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		113 min
Aug 24, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		93 min
Aug 24, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		67 min
Aug 24, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		87 min
Aug 24, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Aug 24, 10:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		59 min
Aug 24, 11:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		93 min
Aug 24, 11:22 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Aug 24, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		96 min
Aug 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	42 min
Aug 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min
Aug 24, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Aug 24, 10:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	115 min
Aug 24, 1:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	113 min
Aug 24, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	29 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.