Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL

July 1, 2001Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 86 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: Jul 1, 2001, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Escambia County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMOB 012323
FFWMOB

ALC053-020045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
619 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER HOLMAN PRISON...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF BREWTON...
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  POARCH...VOCATION BY 625 PM CDT
  HUXFORD BY 630 PM CDT

MUCH OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED ALONG THE I-65 CORRIDOR 
BETWEEN POARCH AND BARNETT CROSSROADS.  RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 
INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED DURING THE PAST HOUR.  AN ADDITIONAL 
2 INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.   

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AS WELL 
AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
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 3102 8733 3126 8720 3127 8749 3108 8756

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.