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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 2007, 3:54 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, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2007, 7:00 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 4:05 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Navarre, FL | DRAINAGE POND COMPROMISED NEAR NAVARRE. WATER COVERS SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 98. A PORTION OF HIGHWAY 98 IS REPORTED CLOSED. |
| Oct 19, 4:15 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 190904
FFWMOB
FLC033-091-113-191200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0002.071019T0854Z-071019T1200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
403 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 700 AM CDT
* AT 403 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO
SHOW THUNDERSTORMS IMPACTING THE WARNED AREA. STORM MOVEMENT IS SLOW...
SUGGESTING THAT THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
NICEVILLE...VALPARAISO...PACE...MILTON...HAROLD...GONZALEZ...FERRY
PASS...ENSLEY...COTTAGE HILL...CANTONMENT...BEULAH 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. LOCAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SUGGEST
THAT 3 TO POSSIBLY AS HIGH AS 5 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAIN HAS FALLEN
FROM NEAR BELFOREST TO GULF BREEZE SINCE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT.
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE RELAYED REPORTS OF STREET
FLOODING NEAR NAVARRE AND MIDWAY FLORIDA. MANY OTHER STREETS PRONE
TO FLOODING IN HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED.
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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. 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 3030 8752 3043 8736 3052 8744 3060 8740
3070 8738 3067 8638 3043 8639 3043 8642
3038 8640 3037 8653 3039 8669
TIME...MOT...LOC 0854Z 180DEG 0KT 3050 8691
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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, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 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, 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.