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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 2009, 3:44 AM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi; Choctaw County, Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2009, 3:44 AM CST (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2009, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 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 180944
FFWMOB
ALC023-025-MSC153-181330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0076.091218T0944Z-091218T1330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
344 AM CST FRI DEC 18 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO...
CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUTLER...
NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 730 AM CST
* AT 342 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A BAND OF HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA WHICH HAS PRODUCED
UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL AND ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THOMASVILLE
...TALLAHATTA SPRINGS...SILAS...ROCK SPRINGS...OPINE...NEEDHAM...
MELVIN...LAVACA...GILBERTOWN...EVANSBORO...EDNA...COFFEEVILLE...
CHOCTAW CITY...CHAPPELL HILL...ARARAT...HIWANNEE...GRETNA...
EUCUTTA AND BOICE
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3231 8792 3229 8793 3230 8795 3230 8799
3228 8801 3216 8800 3214 8804 3209 8804
3206 8811 3201 8811 3200 8773 3192 8768
3172 8811 3172 8845 3145 8893 3183 8893
3185 8863 3189 8848 3230 8843 3232 8793
$$
JVWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 7:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:54 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 12 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:54 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 12 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:19 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Dec 18, 8:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 6 days |
| Dec 18, 9:35 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 8 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2009Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2009Every flash flood warning in 2009
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.