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Marine Thunderstorm Wind · Gulf of Mexico

Marine Thunderstorm Wind May 20, 2016 · Choctawhatchee Bay, Gulf of Mexico

48 mph

Measured gust (42 kt)

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A Weatherflow station, XFWB, in Choctawhatchee Bay measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 48 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 Shalimar (30.4004, -86.5605).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 638001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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