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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2000, 1:15 PM CST for George County, Stone County, Mississippi; Clarke 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 19, 2000, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, AL, George County, MS, Stone County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 191915 FFWMOB ALC025-MSC039-131-192115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 115 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... STONE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI GEORGE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 112 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUCEDALE TO 12 MILES WEST OF LUCEDALE TO 15 MILES EAST OF WIGGINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... LUCEDALE AT 145 PM CST A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTY ROADS...HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 5:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 34 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.