Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 1, 2007, 9:12 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It took effect at Apr 1, 2007, 9:20 PM CDT. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2007, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2007, 9:20 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2007, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 020220 FFWMOB ALC053-020515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 912 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BREWTON... * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM BOYKIN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR WAWBEEK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN THE LAST THREE HOURS HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BREWTON AND UNTIL THE RAIN ENDS LATER TONIGHT...ADDITIONAL FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FOSHEE...WALLACE...OSAKA...POLLARD...APPLETON...KEEGO...EAST BREWTON...KIRKLAND...ROCK HILL...ROBERTS...BOYKIN...US 29 AND CR 43 AND PARKER SPRINGS 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE. LAT...LON 3122 8744 3102 8746 3101 8678 3125 8678 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMOB 020410
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1108 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2007
ALC053-020515-
ESCAMBIA AL-
1108 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR
EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...
AT 1103 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM KEEGO TO BRADLEY. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEAST.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3113 8717 3101 8735 3101 8671 3119 8671
3125 8678
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:27 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 5 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.