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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL

June 16, 2000Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2000, 4:50 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2000, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 70 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stone County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 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 
WGUS54 KMOB 162154
FFWMOB
MSC131-162300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
450 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 445 PM CDT...THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE RECIEVED REPORTS OF 
LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF WIGGINS FROM HEAVY RAINS 
OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.  THE HEAVY RAINS RESULTED IN LOCALIZED 
STREET FLOODING THAT HAS RESULTED IN THE CLOSURE OF SOUTH MAGNOLIA 
DRIVE DUE TO PONDING OF WATER.  DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES ADDITIONAL 
PERIODS OF MODERATE RAINS COULD OCCUR THROUGH 6 PM AND CONTINUE THE 
THREAT OF FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.  THE RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO 
DISSIPATE BY EARLY EVENING AND LESSON THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL 
FLOODING FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.    

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS 
IMMINENT.  EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS 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.

REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS 
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL 
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MOBILE.

LAT...LON 3089 8929 3076 8914 3090 8895 3091 8921

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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.