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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

May 26, 1993Jackson County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1993, 12:58 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1993, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1993, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 260600
FFWMOB
MSC059-260800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1258 AM CDT WED MAY 26 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 1255 AM WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING
OVER NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY. A REPORT FROM WADE AT 1250 AM HAD SOME OF
THE LOW LYING AREAS ALONG CUMBEST BLUFF ROAD JUST OFF HIGHWAY 63 SEEING
SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING.
 
THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF WADE...HELENA
AND HURLEY.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.  PERSONS IN JACKSON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING
AREAS...SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF RISING WATERS TONIGHT.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FL(ASH 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.
 
 
 
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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, May 25, 11:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-260600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1154 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1993

AT 1150 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN
JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI NEAR BIG POINT AND HURLEY PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS MOVING
TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WEST
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

THIS STORM IS EMBEDDED IN A NARROW BAND OF RAINSHOWERS EXTENDING FROM
NEAR GULFPORT AND PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI NORTHEAST THROUGH
MOBILE...WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.

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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.