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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2016, 6:45 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. 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
- Aug 4, 2016, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:08 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Gulf Breeze, FL | FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 98 THROUGHOUT GULF BREEZE. REPORT RECEIVED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Aug 4, 7:45 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Ese Ferry Pass, FL | 9TH AVENUE NORTH OF I-10 IS UNDER WATER. REPORT RECEIVED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 2871 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
976 WGUS54 KMOB 041145 FFWMOB FLC033-113-041445- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0028.160804T1145Z-160804T1445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 645 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 644 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... PENSACOLA...FERRY PASS...BRENT...WEST PENSACOLA...ENSLEY... WARRINGTON...GONZALEZ...PACE...MILTON...GULF BREEZE...GOULDING... BAGDAD...MYRTLE GROVE...ORIOLE BEACH...NAVARRE...PEA RIDGE... FLORIDATOWN AND PENSACOLA BEACH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3031 8732 3064 8729 3064 8689 3035 8687 $$
1 follow-up statement
080 WGUS74 KMOB 041315 FFSMOB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 815 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 FLC033-113-041445- /O.CON.KMOB.FF.W.0028.000000T0000Z-160804T1445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL- 815 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA AND SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 811 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC AND BROADCAST MEDIA HAS REPORTED AREAS OF FLOODING IN THE PENSACOLA METRO AREA. OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PARTS OF PENSACOLA. WHILE THE HEAVY RAIN WILL GRADUALLY END FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THIS MORNING... ADDITIONAL AND CONTINUED FLOODING IS LIKELY OVER THE NEXT HOUR TO HOUR AND A HALF...PARTICULARLY IN THE PENSACOLA AREA. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... PENSACOLA...FERRY PASS...BRENT...WEST PENSACOLA...ENSLEY... WARRINGTON...GONZALEZ...PACE...MILTON...GULF BREEZE...GOULDING... BAGDAD...MYRTLE GROVE...ORIOLE BEACH...NAVARRE...PEA RIDGE... FLORIDATOWN AND PENSACOLA BEACH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3031 8732 3064 8729 3064 8689 3035 8687 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 6:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 7:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 9:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
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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.