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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2013, 2:07 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 113 min. 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 3, 2013, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
083 WGUS54 KMOB 031907 FFWMOB FLC091-113-032100- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0049.130903T1907Z-130903T2100Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 207 PM CDT TUE SEP 3 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... EAST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 203 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE WARNED AREA AND RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING TO OCCUR. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL EAST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY RURAL WEST CENTRAL OKALOOSA COUNTY LAT...LON 3086 8673 3067 8669 3070 8698 3089 8690 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 3:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 114 min |
| Sep 3, 4:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.