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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 10, 2008, 7:24 AM CST for Conecuh County, Covington County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2008, 7:24 AM CST (13:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2008, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 7:50 AM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Andalusia, AL | SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED IN THE CITY OF ANDALUSIA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMOB 101324 FFWMOB ALC035-039-053-101615- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0025.081210T1324Z-081210T1615Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 724 AM CST WED DEC 10 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANDALUSIA... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BREWTON... * UNTIL 1015 AM CST * AT 715 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN FROM TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WALLACE... US 29 AND CR 43...SARDINE...ROSE HILL...ROCK HILL...RIVER FALLS... RED LEVEL...RANGE...PLEASANT HOME...PAUL...NYMPH...LOANGO...LITTLE ROCK...LIBERTYVILLE...LENOX...KIRKLAND...JOHNSONVILLE...I65 AND CR 6...I65 AND AL 41...I65 AND AL 113...HEATH...GANTT...FOSHEE... DIXIE...COHASSETT...CLEARVIEW...CASTLEBERRY...BROOKLYN...BOYKIN... BECK...BARNETT CROSSROADS AND APPLETON...US 31..BREWTON ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES 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. LAT...LON 3140 8724 3146 8629 3105 8658 3103 8747 $$ EE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 2:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Dec 10, 3:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 25 min |
| Dec 10, 3:16 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 44 min | |
| Dec 10, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 50 min |
| Dec 10, 4:01 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Dec 10, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 5:57 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 6:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 30 min |
| Dec 10, 6:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 18 min |
| Dec 10, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 29 min |
| Dec 10, 6:45 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 10, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Dec 10, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 112 min |
| Dec 10, 7:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Dec 10, 8:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| Dec 10, 8:57 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 26 min |
| Dec 10, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Dec 10, 12:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Dec 10, 2:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.