Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2008, 4:26 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 16, 2008, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 162126 FFWMOB ALC097-162230- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0016.080816T2126Z-080816T2230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 426 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 422 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BIG CREEK LAKE TO AROUND MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT...TO NEAR UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STATIONARY. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEST MOBILE...UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA...MAGNOLIA GROVE GOLF COURSE...LANGAN PARK...SPRING HILL COLLEGE...SEMMES...FOREST HILL...PRICHARD...I65 AND US 45...I65 AND MOFFETT ROAD AND CRICHTON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3087 8834 3074 8808 3057 8821 3075 8841 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Aug 16, 10:44 AM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Aug 16, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 112 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.