Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2008, 1:40 PM CDT for Mobile 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
- Jun 10, 2008, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2008, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 101840 FFWMOB ALC097-101945- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0013.080610T1840Z-080610T1945Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 140 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 138 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA...SPRING HILL COLLEGE...SNOW AND TANNER WILLIAMS...MOBILE INFIRMARY...MOBILE AIRPORT...LANGAN PARK...LADD STADIUM...I65 AND MOFFETT ROAD...I65 AND AIRPORT BLVD...I10 AND I65 INTERSECTION...CRICHTON...MEDAL OF HONOR PARK...BROOKLEY FIELD AIRPORT...AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY AND AIRPORT AND GOVERNMENT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO THREE 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. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3072 8829 3071 8805 3052 8809 3052 8832 TIME...MOT...LOC 1840Z 180DEG 0KT 3063 8819 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 33 min | |
| Jun 10, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 20 min |
| Jun 10, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 28 min |
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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.