Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2016, 11:26 AM CDT for Baldwin 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
- Sep 16, 2016, 11:26 AM CDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
657
WGUS54 KMOB 161626
FFWMOB
ALC003-161930-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0037.160916T1626Z-160916T1930Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1126 AM CDT FRI SEP 16 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 1125 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
FOLEY...ORANGE BEACH...BON SECOUR...PERDIDO BEACH AND ELBERTA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3035 8778 3046 8766 3033 8746 3032 8745
3032 8749 3031 8750 3031 8744 3030 8744
3030 8745 3029 8750 3029 8744 3023 8760
$$1 follow-up statement
003
WGUS74 KMOB 161829
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
129 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2016
ALC003-161836-
/O.CAN.KMOB.FF.W.0037.000000T0000Z-160916T1930Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BALDWIN AL-
129 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3035 8778 3046 8766 3033 8746 3032 8745
3032 8749 3031 8750 3031 8744 3030 8744
3030 8745 3029 8750 3029 8744 3023 8760
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 10:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.