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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2021, 1:52 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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
- Jul 5, 2021, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2021, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
688
WWUS84 KMOB 051852
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
152 PM CDT Mon Jul 5 2021
ALZ052-053-261-262-051945-
Clarke AL-Baldwin Inland AL-Washington AL-Mobile Inland AL-
152 PM CDT Mon Jul 5 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
NORTHEASTERN MOBILE...NORTHWESTERN BALDWIN...SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON
AND SOUTH CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM CDT...
At 152 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 11 miles east of
Calvert, or 21 miles north of Bay Minette, moving northwest at 15
mph.
Dime size hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Stockton, Mount Vernon, Calvert, McIntosh, Movico and I65 And AL 225.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3106 8820 3144 8805 3132 8778 3131 8778
3130 8777 3130 8774 3129 8771 3092 8783
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 114DEG 13KT 3119 8781
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 20 min |
| Jul 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 37 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.