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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 9:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 5 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.