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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

July 6, 1994Barbour County, Henry County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1994, 4:50 AM CDT for Barbour County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1994, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1994, 8:45 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, 9.8 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-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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 060950
FFWMGM
ALC005-067-061345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
450 AM CDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY
 
AT 415 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN IN BARBOUR AND HENRY COUNTIES DURING THE LAST 3 HOURS AND THE
RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL. THE EUFUALA STATE TROOPER POST REPORTED STREET
FLOODING INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS AND SEVERAL HOUSES WERE ALSO FLOODED.
THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL MAKING FLOODING
CONDITIONS HIGHLY LIKELY FOR THE NEXT 3 TO 4 HOURS IN THIS PORTION OF
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Montgomery	60 min
Jul 5, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Barbour, Henry	4 hr
Jul 6, 5:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Coffee, Dale, Pike	3 hr
Jul 6, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	42 min

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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.