Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 2015, 1:09 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 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
- May 16, 2015, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
403
WGUS54 KMOB 160609
FFWMOB
ALC097-161200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0007.150516T0609Z-150516T1200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
109 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 700 AM CDT
* AT 106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
MONITORING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR. HEAVY RAINS
FALLING OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CREOLA... MOUNT VERNON... AXIS...
BUCKS... I65 AND US 43... MOVICO...
LAMBERT GROVE... SALCO... CELESTE...
STAGE COACH WOODS... FORT STODDARD... LE MOYNE...
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 3087 8819 3114 8815 3114 8794 3112 8791
3111 8790 3112 8792 3112 8793 3110 8789
3112 8795 3108 8797 3107 8796 3109 8788
3103 8796 3103 8794 3102 8792 3106 8789
3093 8794 3088 8799 3085 8797
$$1 follow-up statement
248
WGUS74 KMOB 160847
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
347 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015
ALC097-160855-
/O.CAN.KMOB.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150516T1200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MOBILE AL-
347 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
AT 345 AM CDT...THE HEAVY RAINS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR
NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY HAVE ENDED. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3087 8819 3114 8815 3114 8794 3112 8791
3111 8790 3112 8792 3112 8793 3110 8789
3112 8795 3108 8797 3107 8796 3109 8788
3103 8796 3103 8794 3102 8792 3106 8789
3093 8794 3088 8799 3085 8797
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| May 15, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 hr |
| May 16, 1:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| May 16, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 16, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 9 hr |
| May 16, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 8 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.