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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

July 5, 1994Barbour County, Henry County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1994, 11:29 PM CDT for Barbour County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1994, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Henry County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 827 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery60 min
Jul 6, 4:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBarbour, Henry4 hr
Jul 6, 5:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBCoffee, Dale, Pike3 hr
Jul 6, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin42 min

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.