Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 31, 2008, 8:08 PM CST for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 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
- Jan 31, 2008, 8:08 PM CST (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2008, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -182 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 010209
FFWMOB
ALC003-053-097-FLC033-MSC039-010415-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0001.080201T0208Z-080201T0415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
808 PM CST THU JAN 31 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BREWTON...
GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LUCEDALE...
NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAY MINETTE...
MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...
* UNTIL 1015 PM CST
* AT 752 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED FLOOD WATERS
COVERING ROADWAYS WEST OF BIG CREEK LAKE NEAR TANNER WILLIAMS.
RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE SIMILAR WIDESPREAD RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ACROSS THE INLAND PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE EXTREME
NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
LUCEDALE...MOBILE METRO...BAY MINETTE...ROBINSONVILLE...AND BRATT.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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 3126 8694 3105 8702 3083 8751 3055 8789
3073 8799 3028 8813 3033 8828 3038 8833
3036 8839 3073 8843 3077 8886 3099 8883
3100 8843 3122 8781
TIME...MOT...LOC 0208Z 256DEG 31KT 3092 8801
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 35 min |
| Jan 31, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jan 31, 6:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 23 min | |
| Jan 31, 7:09 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jan 31, 7:31 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Jan 31, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Jan 31, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 49 min |
| Jan 31, 8:33 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 27 min | |
| Jan 31, 9:23 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Jan 31, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 32 min |
| Jan 31, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 51 min |
| Jan 31, 11:17 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 28 min | |
| Feb 1, 5:24 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | 24 hr | |
| Jan 31, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 34 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2008Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2008Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008
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.