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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

August 14, 2024Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2024, 3:03 PM CDT for Mobile 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: Aug 14, 2024, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2024, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 55

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 2037 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 14, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:03 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
303 PM CDT Wed Aug 14 2024

ALZ261-263-142045-
Mobile Inland AL-Mobile Central AL-
303 PM CDT Wed Aug 14 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY THROUGH
345 PM CDT...

At 303 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Satsuma, moving south at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Midtown Mobile, Downtown Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, Chickasaw,
Satsuma, Creola, Chunchula, Gulfcrest, Axis, Semmes, I65 And I165,
Mobile Regional Airport, and I65 And AL 158.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3066 8827 3071 8836 3105 8823 3099 8798
      3080 8796 3081 8799 3080 8799 3079 8796
      3079 8799 3077 8799 3076 8798 3078 8796
      3073 8800 3073 8799 3071 8799 3075 8797
      3068 8796 3064 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 004DEG 15KT 3087 8811

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile, Washington	29 hr
Aug 14, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Aug 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	46 min
Aug 14, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	40 min
Aug 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	40 min
Aug 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	47 min
Aug 14, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 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.