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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2014, 5:27 PM CDT for Greene County, 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
- Aug 9, 2014, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Greene County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
301
WGUS54 KMOB 092227
FFWMOB
MSC041-153-100130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0043.140809T2227Z-140810T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
527 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 524 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER THE
WARNED AREA AND RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL
HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 630 PM CDT. THIS WILL LIKELY
CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STATE LINE...
LAT...LON 3149 8871 3152 8846 3151 8845 3135 8845
3130 8870
$$1 follow-up statement
748
WGUS74 KMOB 100120
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
820 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014
MSC041-153-100131-
/O.EXP.KMOB.FF.W.0043.000000T0000Z-140810T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WAYNE MS-GREENE MS-
820 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN GREENE AND SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTIES...
AT 818 PM CDT...THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR
NORTHEASTERN GREENE AND SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTIES HAS ENDED...THUS
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT.
HOWEVER...PONDING OF WATER MAY STILL BE ENCOUNTERED.
LAT...LON 3149 8871 3152 8846 3151 8845 3135 8845
3130 8870
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 117 min |
| Aug 9, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 114 min |
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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.