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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2021, 4:33 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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 15, 2021, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2021, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
162
WWUS84 KMOB 152133
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
433 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021
ALZ060-FLZ205-152215-
Covington AL-Okaloosa Inland FL-
433 PM CDT Thu Jul 15 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHWESTERN COVINGTON AND NORTH CENTRAL OKALOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 515
PM CDT...
At 432 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 7 miles west of
Laurel Hill, or 15 miles west of Florala. This storm was
moving northeast at around 10 mph.
Wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Laurel Hill.
LAT...LON 3104 8634 3091 8655 3098 8672 3100 8670
3100 8669 3101 8670 3120 8657
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 232DEG 3KT 3099 8659
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 94 min |
| Jul 15, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe | 93 min |
| Jul 15, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 41 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.