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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:27 AM CST for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 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, 4:27 AM CST (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 6:35 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Conecuh County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 081030 FFWMOB ALC035-081220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 427 AM CST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA ...CONECUH COUNTY MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH AND EAST OF I-65. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS OF AROUND AN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 500 AM. ANY WATER IN STREETS OR LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE SLOW TO DRAIN BECAUSE OF THE SATURATED GROUND. 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. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOUL8D NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
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, 12:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.