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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 23, 2016, 6:06 PM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi; Choctaw County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 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
- Feb 23, 2016, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:00 PM CST | FLOOD | 8 Sw State Line, MS | FLOODING OF ROADS REPORTED IN OLD AVERY COMMUNITY |
| Feb 23, 8:00 PM CST | FLOOD | Jonathan, MS | FLOODING OF ROADS REPORTED IN JONATHAN COMMUNITY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
643
WGUS54 KMOB 240006
FFWMOB
ALC023-025-129-MSC041-111-153-240300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0002.160224T0006Z-160224T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
606 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 900 PM CST
* AT 603 PM CST...PUBLIC REPORTS OF FLOODING IN STATE LINE AREA HAVE
BEEN RECEIVED...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS
OF ONE TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE WARNING AND DOWNSTREAM
AREAS. FLASH FLOODING WITH WATER ON ROADS IN THE STATE LINE AREA
HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CHATOM...LEAKESVILLE...BEAUMONT...NEW AUGUSTA...STATE LINE...MILLRY...
SILAS...MCLAIN...COFFEEVILLE...FULTON...GILBERTOWN...TOXEY...SAINT
STEPHENS...VINEGAR BEND...BUCKATUNNA...FRUITDALE AND TIBBIE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW! ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3116 8914 3206 8818 3199 8810 3199 8805
3181 8770 3102 8862 3100 8883 3097 8884
3091 8914
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 25 min |
| Feb 23, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 39 min |
| Feb 23, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 7:34 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | George, Greene | 116 min |
| Feb 24, 12:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 76 min |
| Feb 24, 8:25 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Jackson | 5 days |
| Feb 24, 12:04 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 4 days |
| Feb 23, 6:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Feb 23, 6:06 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Feb 23, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 50 min |
| Feb 23, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 11 min |
| Feb 23, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 44 min |
| Feb 23, 6:58 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:00 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 46 min |
| Feb 23, 7:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 7:27 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| Feb 23, 7:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 21 min |
| Feb 23, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 23, 8:15 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 15 min | |
| Feb 23, 8:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| Feb 23, 8:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Feb 23, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 22 min |
| Feb 23, 9:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 9:57 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Feb 24, 3:59 AM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 17 hr | |
| Feb 24, 1:02 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 4 days |
| Feb 24, 1:02 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 8 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016
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.