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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 20055 counties in Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2005, 5:20 PM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama. 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: Jul 10, 2005, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 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 102223
FFWMOB
ALC023-025-035-099-131-110215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE DENNIS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE 
WARNED AREA THIS EVENING. RAINFALL OF GREATER THAN 3 INCHES WILL 
CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN MANY AREAS THIS EVENING.

* THE CORE OF HEAVIEST RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE DENNIS WILL BE 
NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER TONIGHT.

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. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS 
WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT 
TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3129 8776 3128 8715 3225 8748 3222 8843

$$

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, 4:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	45 min
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

Nearby

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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.