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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Feb 10, 2021, 1:53 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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
- Feb 10, 2021, 1:53 PM CST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2021, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
410 WWUS84 KMOB 101953 SPSMOB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mobile AL 153 PM CST Wed Feb 10 2021 FLZ205-102030- Okaloosa Inland FL- 153 PM CST Wed Feb 10 2021 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... NORTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM CST... At 153 PM CST, the strong thunderstorm was located over Crestview, moving east at 55 mph. Half inch hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Crestview. 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 3072 8669 3086 8667 3094 8639 3072 8639 TIME...MOT...LOC 1953Z 267DEG 49KT 3077 8657 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 11:10 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 10, 8:49 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 35 hr | |
| Feb 10, 2:47 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 66 min |
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.