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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2016, 2:55 PM CDT for Conecuh County, 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 8, 2016, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
709
WGUS54 KMOB 081955
FFWMOB
ALC035-053-082300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0030.160808T1955Z-160808T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
255 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 254 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN
SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BREWTON...EVERGREEN...CASTLEBERRY...REPTON AND I65 AND US 84.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
&&
LAT...LON 3111 8687 3111 8728 3142 8727 3145 8723
3146 8721 3146 8686
$$1 follow-up statement
525
WGUS74 KMOB 082253
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
553 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
ALC035-053-082303-
/O.EXP.KMOB.FF.W.0030.000000T0000Z-160808T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CONECUH AL-ESCAMBIA AL-
553 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH AND NORTHEASTERN
ESCAMBIA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM CDT...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3111 8687 3111 8728 3142 8727 3145 8723
3146 8721 3146 8686
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 42 min |
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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.