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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

September 4, 2011Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2011, 1:22 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 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
Sep 4, 2011, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2011, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2011-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 307 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2011-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 279 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

213 
WGUS54 KMOB 041822
FFWMOB
MSC153-042115-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0032.110904T1822Z-110904T2115Z/
/00000.0.RS.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
122 PM CDT SUN SEP 4 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO...

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 112 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE WARNED AREA. 
  RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE OVER TWO INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER  
  PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR WITH ANOTHER 1   
  TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLARA AND 
WAYNESBORO

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL
FREE AT 1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.

LAT...LON 3182 8889 3184 8864 3165 8862 3156 8861
      3144 8860 3144 8889

$$

JW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 7:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningMOBGeorge, Greene, Perry, Stone6 hr
Sep 4, 12:59 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGeorge61 min
Sep 4, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBStone3 hr
Sep 4, 3:10 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGeorge50 min
Sep 4, 8:40 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Perry35 min
Sep 4, 9:14 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBPerry, Wayne46 min
Sep 4, 9:54 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBGeorge, Greene, Wayne25 hr
Sep 4, 11:13 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBPerry62 min
Sep 4, 11:19 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Perry56 min
Sep 4, 11:41 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Wayne64 min
Sep 4, 12:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene56 min
Sep 4, 1:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBWayne42 min
Sep 4, 1:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBGeorge, Greene3 hr
Sep 4, 2:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBWayne59 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2011Every flash flood warning in 2011

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.