Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2008, 3:10 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2008, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 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 252011 FFWMOB ALC003-252115- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0012.080525T2010Z-080525T2115Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 310 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE FOLEY AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FOLEY AND ELBERTA ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE AND A HALD TO TWO AND HALF INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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. LAT...LON 3047 8775 3047 8754 3029 8754 3029 8775 TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 180DEG 0KT 3038 8765 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS54 KMOB 252012 CCA FFWMOB ALC003-252115- /O.COR.KMOB.FF.W.0012.080525T2010Z-080525T2115Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 310 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE FOLEY AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FOLEY AND ELBERTA ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE AND A HALF TO TWO AND HALF INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3047 8775 3047 8754 3029 8754 3029 8775 TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 180DEG 0KT 3038 8765 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| May 25, 3:37 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 83 min | |
| May 25, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 43 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 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.