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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL

December 24, 2015Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 2015, 3:07 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. 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: Dec 24, 2015, 3:07 PM CST (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2015, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 283 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

340 
WGUS54 KMOB 242107
FFWMOB
ALC131-250100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0027.151224T2107Z-151225T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
307 PM CST THU DEC 24 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 305 PM CST...AN AXIS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LOCATED FROM
  EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY SOUTHWEST INTO MONROE COUNTY AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL FALL ON SATURATED
  GROUND AND LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PINE APPLE...          OAK HILL...            

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!

IF YOU ARE IN DANGER FROM THE FLOOD WATERS AND NEED RESCUE ASSISTANCE
CALL 911.  TO REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CALL
(800) 284-9059.

&&

LAT...LON 3208 8719 3207 8719 3206 8718 3205 8718
      3205 8686 3196 8686 3196 8691 3183 8691
      3183 8735 3210 8723

$$

1 follow-up statement

004 
WGUS74 KMOB 250100
FFSMOB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
700 PM CST THU DEC 24 2015

ALC131-250110-
/O.EXP.KMOB.FF.W.0027.000000T0000Z-151225T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WILCOX AL-
700 PM CST THU DEC 24 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY HAS BEEN
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 700 PM CST...THE HEAVY RAINS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY HAVE LARGELY ENDED. AS SUCH...THE FLASH
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CALL (800) 284-
9059.

STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
MOBILE.

&&

LAT...LON 3208 8719 3207 8719 3206 8718 3205 8718
      3205 8686 3196 8686 3196 8691 3183 8691
      3183 8735 3210 8723

$$

BUTTS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 7:29 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	43 hr
Dec 23, 9:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	25 min
Dec 23, 11:00 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	12 hr
Dec 24, 5:22 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	113 min
Dec 24, 6:53 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	3 hr
Dec 24, 7:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Conecuh	60 min
Dec 24, 8:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Dec 24, 8:27 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Conecuh	3 hr
Dec 24, 8:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Covington, Escambia	61 hr
Dec 24, 9:21 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Covington	4 days
Dec 24, 9:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	4 hr
Dec 24, 9:55 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Monroe	3 hr
Dec 24, 10:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Butler	3 hr
Dec 24, 11:48 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Monroe	6 hr
Dec 24, 12:27 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	21 hr
Dec 24, 1:04 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	3 hr
Dec 24, 1:22 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	38 min
Dec 24, 1:28 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	6 hr
Dec 24, 1:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	3 hr
Dec 24, 2:18 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Butler	6 hr
Dec 24, 2:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Monroe	4 hr
Dec 24, 4:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	3 hr
Dec 24, 5:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Conecuh	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.