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High Surf Advisory 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 15, 2025, 3:17 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 1:12 AM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2025, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:12 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 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 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 14.6
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 15, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:42 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 29 hr | |
| Mar 15, 10:43 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 14 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.