Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1998, 12:59 AM CST for Mobile 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 12:59 AM CST (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 619 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 080700 FFWMOB ALC097-081000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1259 AM CST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF MOBILE COUNTY WHERE UP TO 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED SINCE 10 PM. REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM PARTS OF WEST MOBILE. THOUGH THE RAINS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS...FLOOD WATERS WILL BE SLOW TO RECEDE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY AND THE ROAD BENEATH MAY NOT BE INTACT. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF FLOWING WATER TO WASH MOST CARS AWAY. REMEMBER... MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 116 min |
| Mar 8, 12:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 1:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 117 min |
| Mar 8, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 4:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 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.