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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 1, 2007, 12:19 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2007, 12:19 PM CDT (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2007, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 011722 FFWMOB ALC003-097-012100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1219 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAY MINETTE... CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 1212 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VAUGHN... TANNER WILLIAMS...STOCKTON...SNOW AND TANNER WILLIAMS...SEMMES... SATSUMA...REDTOWN...LOTTIE...KUSHLA...I65 AND US 43...CREOLA... CELESTE...BIG CREEK LAKE DAM...AXIS AND OAK GROVE A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM WEST-CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY TO NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY CONTINUES TO CREATE PROBLEMS...WITH RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AND SURFACE RAINFALL TOTALS OF OVER THREE INCHES THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN 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. LAT...LON 3120 8761 3072 8842 3051 8840 3093 8762 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 10:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 94 min |
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.