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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL

March 8, 1998Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1998, 3:30 PM CST for Crenshaw 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

County Crenshaw County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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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 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 WarningMOBBaldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia4 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 WarningMOBCovington, Escambia5 hr
Mar 8, 10:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin5 hr
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 WarningMOBCovington, Escambia63 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 WarningMOBBaldwin, Escambia6 hr
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington6 hr
Mar 8, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile6 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.