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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2021, 9:49 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2021, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
838
WWUS84 KMOB 280249
SPSMOB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
949 PM CDT Tue Jul 27 2021
ALZ052-261-262-MSZ067-076-280330-
Baldwin Inland AL-Washington AL-Mobile Inland AL-Greene MS-Wayne MS-
949 PM CDT Tue Jul 27 2021
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...NORTHEASTERN MOBILE...NORTHWESTERN BALDWIN...SOUTHERN
WASHINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE AND NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTIES
UNTIL 1030 PM CDT...
At 947 PM CDT, the strong thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 6 miles southwest of State Line to 3 miles northeast
of Deer Park to 5 miles west of Calvert, and moving southwest at
10 mph.
Wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph will be possible with these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Citronelle, Deer Park, Tibbie, Mount Vernon, Calvert, State Line,
Fruitdale, McIntosh and Movico.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3156 8859 3137 8812 3122 8793 3121 8795
3116 8794 3115 8795 3115 8794 3114 8794
3116 8793 3115 8790 3117 8790 3114 8787
3115 8787 3118 8789 3118 8788 3114 8783
3099 8804 3116 8844 3134 8872
TIME...MOT...LOC 0247Z 069DEG 9KT 3138 8857 3126 8829 3113 8810
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 10:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:13 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 16 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:46 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 44 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:46 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 4 days |
| Jul 28, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 5:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 44 min |
| Jul 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Jul 28, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 39 min |
| Jul 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 23 min |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 50 min |
| Jul 28, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 4:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Okaloosa | 14 min |
| Jul 28, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Jul 28, 4:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 11:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George, Perry | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 34 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.