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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 2005Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2005, 4:38 PM CDT for Escambia 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: Jul 10, 2005, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMOB 102142
FFWMOB
ALC053-102345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
438 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY FROM TORRENTIAL RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH 
HURRICANE DENNIS. 

* RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF 4 TO 5 INCHES PER HOUR WILL MOVE 
ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY OVER THE NEXT FEW 
HOURS. THIS AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE MOVING NORTH ACROSS ATMORE. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE AFTER THE HEAVY RAINS EASE UP...IF OUT AFTER 
THE STORMS...DONT DRIVE INTO ANY AREAS OF FLOWING OR STANDING 
WATER.  

LAT...LON 3101 8759 3101 8723 3119 8731 3119 8763

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	61 min
Jul 10, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	25 min
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Jul 10, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	4 hr
Jul 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Monroe	47 min
Jul 10, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	43 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 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.