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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jan 26, 2021, 3:50 AM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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
- Jan 26, 2021, 3:50 AM CST (09:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2021, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted.
422
WWUS84 KMOB 260950
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
350 AM CST Tue Jan 26 2021
ALZ054-261045-
Wilcox AL-
350 AM CST Tue Jan 26 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CENTRAL
WILCOX COUNTY UNTIL 445 AM CST...
At 350 AM CST, the strong thunderstorm was located 4 miles east of
Magnolia, or 16 miles southeast of Linden, moving east at 55 mph.
Dime size hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Camden and Pine Hill.
LAT...LON 3224 8739 3220 8736 3220 8733 3214 8728
3214 8725 3212 8726 3208 8719 3205 8718
3205 8686 3200 8686 3196 8767 3200 8767
3201 8762 3213 8762 3213 8752 3224 8752
3225 8743
TIME...MOT...LOC 0950Z 264DEG 48KT 3215 8758
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 8:11 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 14 hr |
| Jan 25, 8:15 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 16 hr | |
| Jan 26, 2:36 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 54 min |
| Jan 26, 3:27 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| Jan 26, 4:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 56 min |
| Jan 26, 4:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Jan 26, 6:29 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Jan 26, 8:00 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Jan 26, 9:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Jan 26, 3:06 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 23 hr | |
| Jan 26, 3:06 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 54 hr | |
| Jan 26, 4:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 42 min |
| Jan 26, 7:42 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:19 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 56 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.