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Marine Thunderstorm Wind May 20, 2016 · Perdido Bay Area, Gulf of Mexico
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A Weatherflow station, XMLP, in Perdido Bay measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 46 mph.
The wider storm
A vigorous and well defined mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) moved across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama during the evening of May 19th and the early morning hours of May 20th. With an unstable environment in place, a well defined line of thunderstorms moved across the coastal waters of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle during the early morning hours of May 20th.
Began near Orange Beach (30.2997, -87.5084).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 638000. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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