Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2002, 5:39 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 7 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
- Sep 25, 2002, 5:39 AM CDT (10:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 251039 FFWMOB ALC003-251730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 538 AM CDT WED SEP 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAY MINETTE * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 527 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT WAS MOVING FROM THE GULF OF MEXIO WESTWARD INTO BALDWIN COUNTY. TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER COASTAL SECTIONS SINCE MIDDAY TUESDAY. LOCATIONS NEAR THE COAST ARE NOW REPORTING THE ONSET OF A GENERAL INUNDATION AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. COUNTY ROADS 4 AND 6 WERE REPORTED AS BEING NEARLY IMPASSABLE BY BALDWIN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS. THROUGH AROUND NOON...EXPECT A GENERAL TENTH TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN PER HOUR OVER MOST LOCATIONS IN BALDWIN COUNTY. HOWEVER... IN THUUNDERSTORMS ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN AN HOUR. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL EITHER APPROACH OR REMAIN ABOVE BANKFULL DUE TO EXPECTED PROLONGED MODERATE RAINS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER INLAND SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY AROUND MIDDAY. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CAN INDUCE RAPID RUNOFF AND SUDDEN RISES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING MUCH SOONER IN SOME LOCATIONS. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 9 hr |
| Sep 25, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 7 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Sep 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 33 min | |
| Sep 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 14 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.