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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Mobile, AL

March 5, 2025Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 5, 2025, 4:54 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2025, 4:54 AM CST (10:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 807 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 912 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 13.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 5, 4:51 AM CST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 4:51 AM CST, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 12:07 AM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 12:13 AM CST, 4 hours 41 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
Mar 4, 6:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	34 min
Mar 4, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	29 min
Mar 4, 6:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	41 min
Mar 4, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	63 min
Mar 4, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	61 min
Mar 4, 7:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox	53 min
Mar 4, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	35 min
Mar 4, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington	53 min
Mar 4, 8:16 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Mar 4, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	65 min
Mar 4, 8:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Mobile	62 min
Mar 4, 9:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Mar 4, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	62 min
Mar 4, 9:39 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		36 min
Mar 4, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	61 min
Mar 4, 9:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe	40 min
Mar 4, 10:16 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Mar 4, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	59 min
Mar 4, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MOB	Covington, Escambia	66 min
Mar 4, 11:31 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		74 min
Mar 4, 11:33 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		72 min
Mar 5, 4:49 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more	13 hr
Mar 4, 10:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	51 min
Mar 4, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	58 min
Mar 4, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone	59 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.