Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2005, 11:46 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 4 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, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 070447
FFWMOB
FLC033-091-113-070900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1146 PM CDT WED APR 6 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
* UNTIL 400 AM CDT
* AT 1146 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO
INDICATE CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE WESTERN
FLORIDA PANHANDLE. DUE TO THE PERSISTENT PASSAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS
OVER THE SAME AREAS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS...EXCESSIVE
RUNOFF HAS CAUSED SEVERAL ROADS TO BECOME FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.
SOME AREA RESIDENCES IN GULF BREEZE HAVE REPORTED WATER COMING INTO
HOMES. MAJOR FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN MARY ESTHER AS WELL.
DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW A LARGE SWATH OF STORM TOTAL
RAINS EXCEEDING 4 INCHES SOUTH OF I-10...WITH BEACH COMMUNITY ESTIMATES OF
UP TO 6 INCHES OVER THE WARNED AREA.
ADDITIONAL RAINS DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS WILL EQUATE TO RUNOFF...WHICH
WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE ONGOING FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS OTHER POOR 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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
LAT...LON 3032 8740 3041 8681 3040 8646 3082 8638
3083 8757 3064 8735 3055 8742
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
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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.