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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL

April 28, 1998Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1998, 8:27 AM CDT for Perry County, Stone 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
Apr 28, 1998, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1998, 11:25 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1998-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 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 281327
FFWMOB
MSC111-131-281625-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
827 AM CDT TUE APR 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1125 AM CDT

* AT 825 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT MOBILE
  INDICATED SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
  RAIN WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO TRAIN ACROSS THE AREA.

* THIS WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR
  DRAINAGE AREAS IN BOTH PERRY AND STONE COUNTIES. LATEST ESTIMATES
  INDICATE RAINFALL RATES OF ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR CONTINUE
  OVER THE AREA. SINCE 5 AM...THE SOUTHERN TWO THRIDS OF PERRY COUNTY
  HAS RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL...AND THE NORTHWESTERN
  QUARTER OF STONE COUNTY HAS RECEIVED 3 TO 4 INCHES.

  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATERT COVERS THE ROAD!

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 6:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBPerry, Stone119 min
Apr 28, 6:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry33 min
Apr 28, 6:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeorge35 min
Apr 28, 7:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBWayne118 min
Apr 28, 9:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBWayne109 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.