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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2021, 5:07 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 3, 2021, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
296
WWUS84 KMOB 032207
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
507 PM CDT Thu Jun 3 2021
ALZ054-057-032245-
Wilcox AL-Butler AL-
507 PM CDT Thu Jun 3 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHWESTERN BUTLER AND SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM
CDT...
At 507 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 8 miles northeast
of Pine Apple, or 17 miles northwest of Greenville, moving east at 15
mph.
Dime size hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Greenville.
LAT...LON 3196 8686 3196 8653 3177 8656 3186 8697
3204 8694 3204 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 276DEG 15KT 3195 8688
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:46 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wilcox | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 5:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 50 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.