Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 1992, 9:27 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 1992, 9:27 PM CST (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 1992, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 170329 FFWMOB ALC003-170630- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 927 PM CST WED DEC 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY THE FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT SOUTH OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10 AT 920 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERING THE SOUTHERN HALF OF BALDWIN COUNTY. THE AREA SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT WITH THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. AT 920 PM ROBERTSDALE PD REPORTED COUNTY ROAD 55 WEST OF ROBERTSDALE HAS ABOUT 3 FEET OF WATER ON IT AND IS IMPASSABLE. ALSO...COUNTY ROAD 104 ALSO WEST OF ROBERSTDALE WAS ALSO UNDER WATER AND THE WATER WAS RISING. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING IN ROBERTSDALE AT THE TIME OF THE REPORT. THE THUNDERSTORM AREA EXTENDED INTO THE GULF BEYOND 50 MILES AND A CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF THE FORT MORGAN PENINSULA AND WILL MOVE ONSHORE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL DRIVING ON COUNTY ROADS IN THE DARK. DO NOT CROSS AN AREA OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER AND BE ALERT FOR WASHOUTS AT BRIDGE APPROACHES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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, Dec 16, 4:17 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
ALZ016-MSZ013-170015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 416 PM CST WED DEC 16 1992 ...HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY FOR JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 600 PM... AT 410 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INLAND FROM THE GULF INTO JACKSON AND MOBILE COUNTIES. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADS. IN ADDITION SMALL STREAMS WILL RISE TO BANKFULL OR HIGHER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILjL ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. MOTORISTS COMMUTING TO HOME FROM WORK SHOULD PLAN ON SLOWING DOWN AND DRIVING WITH EXTREME CARE.
Special weather statement, Dec 16, 5:34 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
FLZ001>004-170025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 530 PM CST WED DEC 16 1992 AT 525 PM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA THEN CONTINUED OVER COASTAL ALABAMA AND OUT INTO THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS. THE BAND WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS EVENING THEY WILL LIKELY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. DUE TO THE LARGE WIDTH OF THE BAND OF RAIN SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS...LOW LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IS POSSIBLE. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 16, 8:38 PM CST, 49 minutes before
FLZ001>004-170325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 837 PM CST WED DEC 16 1992 AT 825 PM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND CONTINUED OUT INTO THE ALABAMA COASTAL WATERS. THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS IN A SHORT BAND FROM MCDAVID IN NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA SOUTHWEST TO THE COAST IN SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. AS THIS BAND OF HEAVY RAIN MOVES SLOWLY EAST THIS EVENING...RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA CAN EXPECT TO EXPERIENCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING ALONG WITH SOME POSSIBLE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD BE AWARE FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING AND STAY ALERT FOR FLOOD WARNINGS IF THEY BECOME NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Dec 16, 8:41 PM CST, 46 minutes before
FLZ001>004-170325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 837 PM CST WED DEC 16 1992 AT 825 PM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND CONTINUED OUT INTO THE ALABAMA COASTAL WATERS. THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS IN A SHORT BAND FROM MCDAVID IN NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA SOUTHWEST TO THE COAST IN SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. AS THIS BAND OF HEAVY RAIN MOVES SLOWLY EAST THIS EVENING...RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA CAN EXPECT TO EXPERIENCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING ALONG WITH SOME POSSIBLE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD BE AWARE FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING AND STAY ALERT FOR FLOOD WARNINGS IF THEY BECOME NECESSARY.
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.