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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 2020Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2020, 4:33 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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 25, 2020, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2020, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Greene County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 1596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 25, 4:10 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 4:10 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:38 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:49 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:12 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:14 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:20 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:33 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min
Aug 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		46 min
Aug 24, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		47 min
Aug 25, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	25 min
Aug 25, 12:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	25 min
Aug 25, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	45 min
Aug 25, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		57 min
Aug 25, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	42 min
Aug 25, 7:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox	3 hr
Aug 25, 7:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Aug 25, 7:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
Aug 25, 8:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	6 hr
Aug 25, 8:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	41 min
Aug 25, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		59 min
Aug 25, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		56 min
Aug 25, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Aug 25, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	59 min
Aug 25, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		39 min
Aug 25, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		44 min
Aug 25, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Aug 25, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	35 min
Aug 25, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
Aug 25, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		38 min
Aug 25, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	27 min
Aug 25, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		22 min
Aug 25, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	37 min
Aug 25, 7:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Wayne	3 hr
Aug 25, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	49 min
Aug 25, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	26 min
Aug 25, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	George	26 min
Aug 25, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	33 min
Aug 25, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	31 min
Aug 25, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Perry	25 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Mississippi, 2020 Every 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.