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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2004, 5:37 AM CDT for Escambia County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2004, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 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 161044 FFWMOB ALC053-099-161230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 537 AM CDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 730 AM CDT * AT 531 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF HURRICANE IVAN MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR ARE OCCURRING IN THIS BAND. THESE HEAVY RAINS ARE MOVING NORTHWARD INTO SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WAWBEEK...VOCATION...URIAH...SARDINE...ROBINSONVILLE...POARCH... MINEOLA...MEGARGEL...MCCULLOUGH...MANISTEE...MALTA...JEDDO... HUXFORD...HOMEWOOD...HOLMAN PRISON...FREEMANVILLE...ELISKA... CARNEY...CANOE...BOONEVILLE AND ATMORE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF NUMEROUS SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. RESIDENTS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATERS OF UNKNOWN BY AUTOMOBILE. REMEMBER...IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. LAT...LON 3100 8750 3101 8726 3150 8744 3136 8771 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.