Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 24, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. 5 reports 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
- Mar 24, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 1:40 PM CDT | FLOOD | 1 Ne Mobile Airport, AL | FLOOFING AT AIRWAY PARK AND SCHILLINGER BLVD |
| Mar 24, 1:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Ne Mobile Regional Ai, AL | FLASH FLOODING REPORTED AT AIRWAY PARK AND SCHILLINGER RD. |
| Mar 24, 1:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Sw Semmes, AL | WATER OVER BOTH NURSERY RD AND JEREMY DR IN THE SEMMES AREA. REPORT VIA SEMMES MAYORS OFFICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Mar 24, 1:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Nne Brookley Field Ai, AL | MULTIPLE STREETS IMPASSIBLE IN DOWNTOWN MOBILE. REPORTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Mar 24, 1:40 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ssw Chickasaw, AL | HIGH WATER RESCUE OF MOTORIST REPORTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF OLD SHELL RD AND BAY SHORE AVE. |
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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted.
148
WGUS54 KMOB 241801
FFWMOB
ALC097-242100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0017.160324T1801Z-160324T2100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
101 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 100 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...INCLUDING THE MOBILE
METRO. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE IN A VERY SHORT
DURATION WHICH WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN
AREAS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MOBILE...PRICHARD...SARALAND...SATSUMA...CHICKASAW...CREOLA...GRAND BAY...
DOWNTOWN MOBILE...TILLMANS CORNER...THEODORE...MIDTOWN MOBILE...
REGIONAL AIRPORT IN WEST MOBILE...AXIS...I65 AND I165...BUCKS...I10 AND
I65...I65 AND US 43...CHUNCHULA...I65 AND US 45 AND SEMMES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3045 8840 3069 8840 3103 8812 3107 8794
3090 8796 3088 8799 3082 8797 3077 8803
3071 8801 3070 8801 3070 8800 3069 8801
3070 8802 3069 8802 3075 8804 3066 8803
3064 8806 3048 8810
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 10:22 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 hr |
| Mar 24, 12:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 119 min |
| Mar 24, 12:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 12:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Mar 24, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Mar 24, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 1 more | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 1:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Mar 24, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| Mar 24, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min |
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.