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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 24, 2013, 7:08 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. 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
- Sep 24, 2013, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105
WGUS54 KMOB 250008
FFWMOB
FLC033-091-113-250400-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0052.130925T0008Z-130925T0400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
708 PM CDT TUE SEP 24 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
SOUTHWESTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 706 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
MONITORING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
OVER THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING...PARTICULARLY OVER LOCATIONS WHERE GROUNDS ARE ALREADY
SATURATED FROM HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE EARLY THIS
MORNING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PENSACOLA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... MIDWAY...
WOODLAWN BEACH... TIGER POINT... PEA RIDGE...
NAVARRE... MULAT... HOLLEY...
FLORIDATOWN...
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 3031 8733 3058 8732 3064 8677 3039 8661
3037 8689 3030 8726
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 45 min |
| Sep 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.