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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2005, 5:56 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2005, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 062256
FFWMOB
ALC003-097-070100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
556 PM CDT WED APR 6 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS THAT HAVE
RECEIVED ABUNDANT RAINFALL FOR THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN
MOBILE COUNTY THEN SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ARE
LIKELY OVER THE WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS
OTHER POUR DRAINAGE AND 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 DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. REMEMBER...IT ONLY
TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.
LAT...LON 3070 8844 3040 8840 3035 8815 3026 8812
3025 8773 3034 8743 3049 8747 3066 8741
3074 8754
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Apr 6, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 37 min |
| Apr 6, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Apr 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| Apr 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 93 min |
| Apr 6, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Apr 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Apr 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 42 min |
| Apr 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.