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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 25, 2013, 7:48 PM CST for George County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 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
- Feb 25, 2013, 7:48 PM CST (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2013, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 8:16 PM CST | FLOOD | 2 E Mobile Airport, AL | MINOR STREET FLOODING NEAR INTESECTION OF AIRPORT BLVD. AND FOREMAN RD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913
WGUS54 KMOB 260148
FFWMOB
ALC097-MSC039-260745-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0007.130226T0148Z-130226T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
748 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
WEST CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 145 AM CST
* AT 740 PM CST...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE WARNED
AREA AND RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS
OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES MAY
FALL THROUGH 10 PM CST. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN
THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REGIONAL AIRPORT IN WEST MOBILE... SEMMES...
LUCEDALE...
LAT...LON 3073 8842 3074 8877 3087 8870 3095 8859
3100 8848 3100 8843 3102 8842 3104 8840
3094 8821 3059 8819 3057 8841
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 6:54 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 6:19 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Feb 25, 9:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 10:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 11:29 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Feb 26, 5:36 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 24 hr | |
| Feb 26, 12:23 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 8 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:49 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 9 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.