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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 24, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2021, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
206
WWUS84 KMOB 242013
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
313 PM CDT Sat Jul 24 2021
ALZ263-MSZ079-242045-
Mobile Central AL-George MS-
313 PM CDT Sat Jul 24 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WEST
CENTRAL MOBILE AND SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT...
At 313 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorm was located 6 miles northwest
of Tanner Williams, or 13 miles southeast of Lucedale, moving south
at 20 mph.
Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Tanner Williams.
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 3054 8841 3074 8841 3074 8854 3084 8854
3087 8842 3080 8842 3080 8839 3053 8828
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 357DEG 18KT 3077 8845
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Jul 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 16 min |
| Jul 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 39 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.