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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2007, 2:31 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 119 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
- Jul 4, 2007, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 041934 FFWMOB ALC097-042130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 231 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER DOWNTOWN MOBILE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING ALONG AIRPORT BOULEVARD WEST TO THE MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WALLACE TUNNEL...PINTO ISLAND...MON LOUIS...ALONG WITH AREAS ALONG AIRPORT BOULEVARD INTO WEST MOBILE. 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 3079 8834 3046 8838 3039 8809 3073 8800 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMOB 042010 FFSMOB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 306 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2007 ALC097-042130- MOBILE AL- 306 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY... AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING ACROSS CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR THE MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT WEST TO THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY FROM THE AREA AROUND DOWNTOWN MOBILE WESTWARD TO THE MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT AND THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3080 8842 3054 8841 3049 8807 3080 8801 $$
000 WGUS74 KMOB 042046 FFSMOB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 345 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2007 ALC097-042055- MOBILE AL- 345 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY... THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED WEST INTO MISSISSIPPI AND THE THREAT FOR ANY ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. LAT...LON 3080 8842 3054 8841 3049 8807 3080 8801 $$
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.