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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 21, 2023Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2023, 8:17 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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 21, 2023, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Wilcox County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 283 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 21, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 7:24 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 8:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 7:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	51 min
Jul 21, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	46 min
Jul 22, 2:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wilcox	49 min
Jul 22, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		44 min
Jul 22, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	46 min
Jul 22, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	50 min
Jul 22, 11:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	66 min
Jul 22, 12:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	67 min
Jul 22, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	56 min
Jul 22, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	41 min
Jul 22, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Jul 22, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		92 min
Jul 22, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	50 min
Jul 22, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	47 min
Jul 22, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington	33 min
Jul 22, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	42 min
Jul 22, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		96 min
Jul 22, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	45 min
Jul 22, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	48 min
Jul 22, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	51 min
Jul 22, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	43 min
Jul 22, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	40 min
Jul 22, 3:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Jul 22, 4:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Jul 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler	46 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		73 min
Jul 22, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe	44 min
Jul 22, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	42 min
Jul 22, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	53 min
Jul 22, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		75 min
Jul 22, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	57 min
Jul 22, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	43 min
Jul 22, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	53 min
Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	40 min
Jul 22, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	47 min
Jul 22, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	66 min
Jul 22, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	55 min
Jul 22, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	27 min
Jul 22, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	48 min
Jul 22, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	56 min
Jul 22, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene	52 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.