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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 2008, 8:45 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr. 3 reports 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
- Apr 5, 2008, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2008, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 8:50 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Ne Pace, FL | WATER WAS REPORTED OVER US HIGHWAY 90 NEAR MAJORS STREET IN PACE |
| Apr 5, 9:35 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Pace, FL | MULTIPLE ROADS IN THE PACE AREA WERE BEING BARRICADED DUE TO FLOOD WATERS |
| Apr 5, 9:45 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Milton, FL | DAM ON LOCKLIN LAKE IN MILTON THAT WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION FAILED. TWO RESIDENCES WERE DAMAGED. LARGE DEBRIS FIELD WENT DOWN COLLINS CREEK INTO THE BLACKWATER RIVER CAUSING THE CLOSURE OF 2 BRIDGES IN THE CITY OF MILTON. NO INJURIES ARE BEING REPORTED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMOB 051347
FFWMOB
ALC003-FLC033-113-051545-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0005.080405T1345Z-080405T1545Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
845 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
* AT 845 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
PERSISTENT HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN BALDWIN
COUNTY...MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND ACROSS
MUCH OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HAROLD...BERRYDALE...MUNSON AND MCLELLAN
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3099 8677 3057 8679 3036 8743 3028 8777
3041 8793 3071 8732 3100 8728
TIME...MOT...LOC 1345Z 237DEG 29KT 3075 8698
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 7:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 9:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | 4 hr | |
| Apr 5, 10:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa | 11 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 11 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 22 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 37 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 4 days |
| Apr 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Apr 4, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 51 min | |
| Apr 4, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 50 min |
| Apr 5, 12:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:34 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Apr 5, 8:42 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| Apr 5, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| Apr 5, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.