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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL

March 8, 1998Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1998, 3:30 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 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, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 1998, 9:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 840 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 275 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 3:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia2 hr
Mar 8, 4:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia33 min
Mar 8, 4:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBSanta Rosa36 min
Mar 8, 5:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia4 hr
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa5 hr
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia5 hr
Mar 8, 2:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa62 min
Mar 8, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa63 min
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa6 hr
Mar 7, 11:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile116 min
Mar 8, 12:19 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin2 hr
Mar 8, 12:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh64 min
Mar 8, 12:59 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile3 hr
Mar 8, 1:08 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBConecuh, Escambia2 hr
Mar 8, 1:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBCovington117 min
Mar 8, 2:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Escambia, Mobile4 hr
Mar 8, 2:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBConecuh, Covington4 hr
Mar 8, 3:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington63 min
Mar 8, 4:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBConecuh2 hr
Mar 8, 5:38 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBCrenshaw4 hr
Mar 8, 5:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile4 hr
Mar 8, 10:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler61 min
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBButler, Conecuh5 hr
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile5 hr
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBCrenshaw5 hr
Mar 8, 1:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh, Covington, Escambia62 min
Mar 8, 2:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin62 min
Mar 8, 2:20 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBButler50 min
Mar 8, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh63 min
Mar 8, 3:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler62 min
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington6 hr
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBCrenshaw6 hr
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.