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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

July 17, 2026Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2026, 7:04 PM CDT for Crenshaw 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 17, 2026, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Crenshaw County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:04 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 17, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	41 min
Jul 18, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	46 min
Jul 18, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	51 min
Jul 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		52 min
Jul 18, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	50 min
Jul 18, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	26 min
Jul 18, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	33 min
Jul 18, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	46 min
Jul 18, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	38 min
Jul 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		79 min
Jul 18, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	41 min
Jul 18, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		51 min
Jul 18, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		57 min
Jul 18, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke	47 min
Jul 18, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min
Jul 18, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		67 min
Jul 18, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Jul 18, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	47 min
Jul 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		80 min
Jul 18, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	33 min
Jul 18, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	42 min
Jul 18, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	40 min
Jul 18, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	53 min
Jul 18, 1:23 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	30 hr

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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.