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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL

August 30, 1996Clarke County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 1996, 12:50 PM CDT for Clarke County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1996, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1996, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 30, 3:14 AM CDT, 9 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:14 AM CDT, 9 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
312 AM CDT THU AUG 29 1996

PERSISTENT TROF OVER THE SE AND CENTRL GULF CST WILL GIVE WAY TO
FURTHER DEV OF DEEP LOW CENTER TO THE W NEAR THE LA TX BORDER IN RESPONSE
TO ACTIVE S/W MOVING SE OVR THE LOWER MS VALLEY DURING THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS.
AS LOW DEVS EXPECT BETTER PVA TO SHIFT BACK TO WEST AND CARRY N WITH CUTOFF
LOW.  AS A RESULT INCREASED MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE FROM THE SE AND GULF
BEGINS EARLY THIS PD ALLOWING DEEP TROP AIR TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY SAT.
BEST LIFT ON I296 TO I312 SFC WAS DEPICTED BETWEEN 18Z FRI TO 12Z SAT FROM
SW AL TO S CENTRL MS WITH A RATHER LARGE AREA OF SUFFICIENT MEAN VERT VEL
IN THE SAME PATTERN.  HIGHEST PRECIP AMMOUNTS LOOK TO BE IN LINE WITH
MOISTURE FLUX FROM THE GULF WITH HIGHEST AMMOUNTS OVR CST SECTIONS OF SW AL
AND EXTREME SE MS.  WITH THIS CAN`T ARGUE WITH LATEST POPS THOUGH MAY WANT
TO MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE TODAY NEAR THE CST OF AL DUE TO
POSSIBLE TRAIN EFFECTS.  (1) 85/72/84/71 7553  (2) 86/72/85/72 7452     32

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 9:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBClarke, Monroe, Wilcox3 hr
Aug 30, 4:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBClarke, Monroe5 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.