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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2013, 11:32 PM CDT for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. 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
- Jul 4, 2013, 11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2013, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:10 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ne Sand Hill, MS | 11 RESCUED FROM HOMES. NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER WATER IN THE SAND HILL COMMUNITY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
363 WGUS54 KMOB 050432 FFWMOB MSC041-111-153-050730- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0026.130705T0432Z-130705T0730Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1132 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 4 MILES EAST OF RICHTON TO 9 MILES EAST OF MULBERRY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA SINCE 10 PM CDT. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THESE TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STATE HIGHWAYS 42 AND 63... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO AREAS WHERE WATER CROSSES A ROAD. TURN AROUND - DON'T DROWN! BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3157 8871 3142 8862 3130 8889 3142 8891 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 107 min |
| Jul 4, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 3 hr |
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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.