A thunderstorm in the morning blew down several trees near Fairhope. Another storm in the afternoon produced a funnel cloud near Fort Morgan.
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A thunderstorm in the morning blew down several trees near Fairhope. Another storm in the afternoon produced a funnel cloud near Fort Morgan.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 29, 3:08 AM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 408 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 .SHORT TERM (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO THIS MORNING WILL MAINTAIN ITSELF TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FRONT EXTENDING FROM WESTERN TENNESSEE ACROSS ARKANSAS AND INTO TEXAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES TODAY AND TONIGHT...BUT REMAIN JUST NORTH AND WEST OF THE LOCAL FCST AREA. DID HAVE WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF RAINFALL YESTERDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER INTERIOR MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA ZONES DURING THE DAY...THEN OVER THE COASTAL ALABAMA ZONES AND ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DURING THE EVENING...SO FOR THE MOST PART GOING WELL ABOVE THE MAVMOS GUIDANCE AND CLOSER TO THE WETTER METMOS PROVED CORRECT. THIS MORNINGS MOS GUIDANCE IS IN MUCH BETTER AGREEMENT...WITH BOTH MAV AND MET INDICATING LIKELY POPS MOST LOCATIONS FOR TODAY. PRECIPITABLE WATER RANGING BETWEEN 1.8 TO NEARLY 2.0 INCHES ACROSS THE REGION...SO PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS IN PLACE. THIS COMBINED WITH OLD BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION...DAYTIME HEATING...AND SEA BREEZE FORCING WILL AGAIN BRING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA TODAY. AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY...WILL AGAIN START THE DAY TODAY WITH LEFTOVER CLOUD COVER FROM CONVECTION YESTERDAY...BUT BY LATE MORNING WILL SEE SOME SUNSHINE WHICH WILL GIVE WAY TO MORE WIDESPREAD CLOUDINESS AGAIN AS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. LINGERING CONVECTION EARLY THIS EVENING GRADUALLY DISSIPATING BY LATE EVENING. CLOUD COVER AND PCPN SHOULD KEEP AFTERNOON MAX TEMPS SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL...PRIMARILY IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S MOST LOCATIONS. LOWS TONIGHY NEAR NORMAL...IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S. TODAYS WET MICROBURST RISK IS LOW. 12/DS .SHORT TERM (MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A BIG BAROCLINIC LOW OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO WILL PUSH INTO THE GULF COAST BY EARLY TUESDAY. EXPECTING CONVECTION TO FIRE AHEAD OF IT. AVERAGE PRECIPITABLE WATER REMAINING 1.8 INCHES OR GREATER SO BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. AS THE FRONT SHUDDERS TO A STOP OFF THE GULF COAST IT IS EXPECTED TO EXPEDITIOUSLY DISSIPATE. WE FOLLOWED HPC GUIDANCE FOR 6 HOUR AMOUNTS SO AVERAGES OF LESS THAN A QUARTER INCH. .LONG TERM (TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...THE TROUGH ORIGINATING FROM THAT LOW OVER ONTARIO NOW DAMPENS ONLY BRIEFLY MIDWEEK AND DIGS IN AGAIN...MORE OR LESS LIKE A DOUBLE GYRE. NONETHELESS THE RETURN OF THE REIGN OF THE SEABREEZE LOOKS CERTAIN AT LEAST BRIEFLY. THE INVERTED BAROTROPIC TROUGH OR EASTERLY WAVE YESTERDAYS GFS PROMISED TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK IS REPLACED BY RIDGING WITH A SLIGHT HINT OR IT BEING DELAYED UNTIL SATURDAY. THE MID LATITUDE TROUGH IS STILL DIGGING IN THIS WEEKEND. PASSAGE OF ANOTHER FRONT NO LONGER IN THE OFFING FOR THE GULF COAST. && .MARINE...A SURFACE RIDGE WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE MARINE AREA THROUGH EARLY MONDAY WITH A GENERALLY LIGHT WEST TO SOUTHWESTERLY WIND TO CONTINUE. MODEL DATA STILL INDICATES THAT A FRONT NOW WELL NORTHWEST OF THE MARINE AREA...WILL DROP ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. IT WILL APPROACHING THE GULF COAST BY LATE MONDAY...AND PERHAPS DRIFTING JUST OFFSHORE EARLY TUESDAY WHILE SLOWLY DISSIPATING. PRESSURE GRADIENT STEEPENS SLIGHTLY IN ADVANCE OF THIS FRONT ON MONDAY...BUT WINDS WILL INCREASE TO ONLY AROUND 15 KNOTS. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO OFFSHORE BRIEFLY MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT WILL QUICKLY RETURN TO AN ONSHORE FLOW BY TUESDAY NIGHT AS A RIDGE REBUILDS OVER THE MARINE AREA. SEAS MAINLY BETWEEN 1 AND 3 FEET THROUGH THE FCST PERIOD. 12/DS && .FIRE WEATHER...MINIMAL FIRE DANGER BY CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. DOMINANCE OF A SURFACE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST WILL RETURN GULF MOISTURE WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MOBILE 86 72 88 66 / 70 40 40 10 PENSACOLA 87 74 88 69 / 70 30 50 20 DESTIN 86 76 84 77 / 50 30 60 20 EVERGREEN 85 69 86 63 / 80 50 50 10 WAYNESBORO 85 67 88 61 / 70 60 30 10 CAMDEN 87 68 87 63 / 80 60 40 10 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 630 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-GMZ630-650-655-670-675-MSZ067-075-076-078- 079-300300- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-MOBILE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 630 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA AGAIN TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER THE GULF WATERS AND COASTAL SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS MORNING WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND DEVELOPING INLAND DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL...IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON MONDAY AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION...BUT RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK AS THE FRONT DRIFTS JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA AND DRIER AIR MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH. AN INCREASE IN SHOWERS AND STORMS IS EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN TOWARD THE UPCOMING 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND WHEN AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM WILL AGAIN BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 834 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 ALZ064-291400- LOWER BALDWIN- 834 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER BALDWIN COUNTY... AT 831 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR POINT CLEAR...MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND... TURKEY BRANCH...CLAY CITY...MARLOW...MAGNOLIA SPRINGS AND SILVERHILL THROUGH 900 AM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG COULD DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS OR BRANCHES AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:43 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds from a thunderstorm, that moved in from the bay, blew down several pecan trees along U. S. Highway 98. The trees were blown down in a three mile wide area. Some outbuildings also suffered damage. Quarter size hail was also reported.
A funnel cloud was observed near Fort Morgan. The funnel never touched down and dissipated into the clouds after being visible for a couple of minutes.
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