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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 2007, 5:35 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 115 min. 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 14, 2007, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2007, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 142238 FFWMOB ALC035-053-150030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 535 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EVERGREEN... NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 534 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED ABOUT 6 INCHES OF WATER ON INTERSTATE 65 NEAR EVERGREEN. THERE ARE LIKELY MANY SMALL STREAMS IN THE AREA ALREADY OVERFLOWING AND FLOODING RURAL ROADS. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RANGE...I65 AND AL 41...LENOX...APPLETON...I65 AND CR 6... KIRKLAND...CASTLEBERRY...I65 AND US 84...NYMPH...I65 AND AL 83... JOHNSONVILLE...OWASSA...BROWNVILLE...BROOKLYN AND WILCOX ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3123 8741 3106 8733 3125 8676 3154 8684 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMOB 142321 FFSMOB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 619 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 ALC035-053-150030- ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL- 619 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN CONECUH AND NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN CONECUH AND NORTHEAST ESCAMBIA COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3128 8721 3113 8712 3125 8671 3151 8684 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 34 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.