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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2016, 9:45 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 4, 2016, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2016, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 2716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
776 WGUS54 KMOB 041445 FFWMOB ALC053-FLC033-113-041745- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0029.160804T1445Z-160804T1745Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 945 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 943 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY RESULT IN AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. THIS INCLUDES THE U.S. HIGHWAY 29 AREA. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... BREWTON...CENTURY...FLOMATON...EAST BREWTON...MOLINO...JAY... POLLARD AND RIVERVIEW. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3113 8737 3122 8702 3070 8711 3070 8747 $$
1 follow-up statement
073 WGUS74 KMOB 041554 FFSMOB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1054 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ALC053-041600- /O.CAN.KMOB.FF.W.0029.000000T0000Z-160804T1745Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ESCAMBIA AL- 1054 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3100 8740 3100 8711 3070 8714 3070 8747 $$ FLC033-113-041745- /O.CON.KMOB.FF.W.0029.000000T0000Z-160804T1745Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL- 1054 AM CDT THU AUG 4 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA AND NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES... AT 1050 AM CDT...WHILE THE HEAVY RAIN IS COMING TO AN END...RADAR INDICATES THAT SOME LOCATIONS NEAR MCDAVID AND CENTURY RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN A THREE HOUR PERIOD. IN ADDITION...FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON U.S. HIGHWAY 29 NEAR MOLINO. THEREFORE...SOME FLOODING ISSUES ARE LIKELY TO PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST THE NEXT HOUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... CENTURY...MCDAVID...AND MOLINO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3100 8740 3100 8711 3070 8714 3070 8747 $$
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, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| 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 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 35 min | |
| Aug 3, 9:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Aug 3, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:04 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Aug 4, 7:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min | |
| Aug 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Conecuh | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.