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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2021, 2:51 AM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 25, 2021, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2021, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
244
WWUS84 KMOB 250751
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
251 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
ALZ057-058-250830-
Butler AL-Crenshaw AL-
251 AM CDT Thu Mar 25 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHERN BUTLER AND NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM CDT...
At 251 AM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 9 miles north of
Georgiana, or 10 miles west of Greenville, moving northeast at 50
mph.
Half inch hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Greenville and Highland Home.
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 3163 8671 3188 8690 3196 8680 3196 8641
3203 8641 3204 8640 3205 8641 3205 8636
3181 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0751Z 227DEG 43KT 3177 8679
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 56 min |
| Mar 24, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 12:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Mar 25, 2:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 7:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 7:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 24 min |
| Mar 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 24 min |
| Mar 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 60 min |
| Mar 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 58 min |
| Mar 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 4 hr |
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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.