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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2016, 4:35 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 115 min. 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 26, 2016, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
274 WGUS54 KMOB 262135 FFWMOB ALC003-097-262330- /O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0039.160926T2135Z-160926T2330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 435 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 433 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MIDTOWN MOBILE...DOWNTOWN MOBILE...PRICHARD...TILLMANS CORNER... SARALAND...CHICKASAW...SATSUMA...SEMMES... MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT...I65 AND AL 158... I65 AND I165 AND I10 AND I65. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE. 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 3056 8839 3086 8832 3090 8795 3056 8805 $$
1 follow-up statement
764
WGUS74 KMOB 262231
FFSMOB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
531 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2016
ALC003-262238-
/O.CAN.KMOB.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-160926T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BALDWIN AL-
531 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO
HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3056 8839 3086 8832 3090 8798 3079 8800
3077 8802 3076 8802 3077 8800 3062 8803
3056 8805
$$
ALC097-262330-
/O.CON.KMOB.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-160926T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MOBILE AL-
531 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY...
AT 528 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA WHERE UP TO THREE
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MIDTOWN MOBILE...PRICHARD...TILLMANS CORNER...
SARALAND...CHICKASAW...SATSUMA...CREOLA...SEMMES...
MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT...I65 AND AL 158...
I65 AND I165 AND I10 AND I65.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE 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.
STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY. RIVER BANKS AND CULVERTS CAN BECOME
UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3056 8839 3086 8832 3090 8798 3079 8800
3077 8802 3076 8802 3077 8800 3062 8803
3056 8805
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 1:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Sep 26, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Sep 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 68 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.