Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. 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
- Jun 16, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 161906
FFWMOB
ALC003-162200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
205 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 151 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF INTERSTATE
10 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 59. THESE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED NEARLY
STATIONARY.
* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL EFFECT AREAS AROUND...
INTERSTATE 65 EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 287 INTERCHANGE TO THE ESCAMBIA
COUNTY LINE NEAR PERDIDO...CARNEY AND PHILLIPSVILLE.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HAVE
LIKELY OCCURRED OVER THE WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3083 8780 3065 8766 3064 8739 3076 8755
3087 8762 3115 8762 3107 8781
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMOB 162031
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
330 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006
ALC003-162200-
BALDWIN AL-
330 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY...
AT 325 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
REDTOWN...PHILLIPSVILLE...PERDIDO...LOTTIE...I65 AND CR 47...I65 AND
AL 287...DYAS AND CARNEY.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MOBILE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3083 8780 3065 8766 3064 8739 3076 8755
3087 8762 3115 8762 3107 8781
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
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Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.