Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 2007, 12:45 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2007, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2007, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2:40 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Navarre, FL | STREET FLOODING IN NAVARRE. |
| Oct 19, 2:40 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | West Pensacola, FL | FLOODING ON ANTHONY STREET AND AT THE BROWN MOBILE HOME PARK IN WEST PENSACOLA. EVACUATIONS ARE UNDERWAY FOR MOBILE HOME RESIDENTS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 190557
FFWMOB
FLC033-091-113-190845-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0001.071019T0545Z-071019T0845Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1256 AM CDT FRI OCT 19 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PENSACOLA...
SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FORT WALTON BEACH...DESTIN...
SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NAVARRE...
* UNTIL 345 AM CDT
* AT 1256 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS OVER THE COASTAL
ZONES OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
SLOWLY NORTHEAST. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE
COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO STREAMING
NORTHEAST AND WILL IMPACT THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THROUGH
345 AM.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WRIGHT...
WEST PENSACOLA...WARRINGTON...VALPARAISO...SEMINOLE...POSTIL...
PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT...PENSACOLA NAVAL BASE...PACE...ORIOLE
BEACH...OCEAN CITY...NICEVILLE...MYRTLE GROVE...MILTON...HAROLD...
GULF BREEZE...GOULDING...GONZALEZ...FERRY PASS...ENSLEY...EGLIN
AFB...EAST PENSACOLA HEIGHTS...COTTAGE HILL...CANTONMENT...
BROWNSVILLE...BRENT...BEULAH...BELLVIEW AND BAGDAD
MANY AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA
PANHANDLE HAVE SEEN UPWARDS OF A HALF TO AROUND A FOOT OF RAIN ON
THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH 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.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3033 8745 3038 8743 3044 8733 3053 8744
3067 8738 3068 8639 3047 8637 3043 8640
3043 8642 3038 8642 3041 8670
TIME...MOT...LOC 0545Z 180DEG 0KT 3007 8759
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10The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 23 min | |
| Oct 18, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Oct 18, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | 14 hr | |
| Oct 19, 1:05 AM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 115 min | |
| Oct 19, 1:57 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Oct 19, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 107 min | |
| Oct 19, 5:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Oct 19, 6:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 6:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Oct 19, 9:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Oct 19, 9:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 15 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.