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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

February 19, 1996George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1996, 5:48 PM CST for George County, Mississippi. 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: Feb 19, 1996, 5:48 PM CST (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 1996, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County George County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 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 192348
FFWMOB
MSC039-200245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
548 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY
 
STRONG TO OCCASIONALLY SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE
PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE COUNTY. UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
BEEN INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR SINCE 3 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE AS MORE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTY
THIS EVENING.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	45 min
Feb 19, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	49 min
Feb 19, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	54 min
Feb 19, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	49 min
Feb 19, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.