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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 2007, 9:37 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2007, 9:37 AM CDT (14:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, 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 14:37 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 191447
FFWMOB
ALC003-FLC033-091-113-192030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0005.071019T1437Z-071019T2030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
937 AM CDT FRI OCT 19 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PENSACOLA...
OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FORT WALTON BEACH...DESTIN...
CRESTVIEW...
SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NAVARRE...
SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 930 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AGENCIES CONTINUE TO REPORT PROBLEMS WITH PROLONGED STANDING WATER
AND WASHED OUT ROADWAYS. THEREFORE...AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING HAS
BEEN ISSUED THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR
IS DETECTING ONLY SPORADIC LIGHT RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THAT
CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE. NO ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS
EXPECTED FOR THE REMINDER OF THE DAY...BUT FLOOD WATERS ARE
EXPECTED TO RECEDE AT A VERY SLOW RATE.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ELSANOR...PACE...MILTON NEAR WHITING FIELD...MILTON...
MILLIGAN...HOLT...HAROLD...GONZALEZ...GALLIVER...DORCAS...
DEERLAND...CRESTVIEW AIRPORT...COTTAGE HILL...CANTONMENT...
BAKER...BAGDAD AND ALLENTOWN.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL...RANGING FROM 7 INCHES ALONG
THE I-10 CORRIDOR UP TO TWO FEET AROUND THE GULF BREEZE AREA...THE
PAST TWO DAYS CONTINUES TO 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.
FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN THE SHOAL RIVER. THE FLOOD CREST IS
EXPECTED TO REACH 1.3 ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AT CRESTVIEW OVER THE
WEEKEND.
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.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MOBILE.
LAT...LON 3046 8784 3077 8715 3085 8638 3046 8639
3049 8646 3043 8657 3039 8640 3040 8673
3024 8773
TIME...MOT...LOC 1437Z 180DEG 0KT 3054 8721
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JPThe 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, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| 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, 9:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 15 hr |
| Oct 19, 7:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2007Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.