Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2005, 11:03 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 3 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 30, 2005, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 301605
FFWMOB
FLC033-091-113-301900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1103 AM CDT SAT APR 30 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 200 PM CDT
* AT 1100 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING FROM NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVING FROM WEST
TO EAST ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. WHILE THE STORMS ARE
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOTED
ON RADAR WELL TO THE WEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF...COASTAL ALABAMA
EXTENDING BACK INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA. THIS
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA
THROUGH 2 PM.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF
TIME ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 2 PM OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH
OKALOOSA...SOUTH SANTA ROSA AND SOUTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE 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.
LAT...LON 3032 8742 3039 8635 3099 8638 3098 8759
3068 8743 3054 8740 3046 8737
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 39 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.