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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2016, 12:28 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 5, 2016, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 12:44 PM CDT | FLOOD | 2 E Palmetto Beach, AL | FT MORGAN FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF WATER ACROSS HIGHWAY 180/FT MORGAN RD NEAR GASQUE AND AREAS TO THE WEST. |
| Sep 5, 1:53 PM CDT | FLOOD | 3 W Gulf Shores, AL | MULTIPLE REPORTS FROM GULF SHORES AND FORT MORGAN OF 4 TO 6 INCHES OF STANDING WATER ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS. |
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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
773
WGUS54 KMOB 051728
FFWMOB
ALC003-052330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0036.160905T1728Z-160905T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1228 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT MONDAY
* AT 1225 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN SO FAR OVER SOME AREAS OF THE FORT FORT PENINSULA. FLOODING
IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GULF SHORES...FOLEY...BON SECOUR AND FORT MORGAN.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ONSHORE OVER THE AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3022 8804 3033 8801 3038 8790 3040 8765
3025 8763 3022 8778
$$1 follow-up statement
213
WGUS74 KMOB 052105
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
405 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2016
ALC003-052114-
/O.CAN.KMOB.FF.W.0036.000000T0000Z-160905T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BALDWIN AL-
405 PM CDT MON SEP 5 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED
TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD
CLOSURES AND AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3022 8804 3033 8801 3038 8790 3040 8765
3025 8763 3022 8778
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 7:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 10:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Sep 5, 11:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Sep 5, 11:54 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Sep 5, 1:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Sep 5, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 29 min | |
| Sep 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.