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Coastal Flood Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

June 20, 2017Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this coastal flood warning at Jun 20, 2017, 8:19 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2017, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2017, 10:04 PM CDT
In force
50 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2017-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2017-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this coastal flood warning went out at Jun 20, 8:17 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 8:17 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:12 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 20, 8:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOBBaldwin, Mobile3 hr
Jun 20, 10:07 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB113 min
Jun 20, 10:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile6 hr
Jun 20, 11:44 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 1:43 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 3:12 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 3:47 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB118 min
Jun 21, 4:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile12 hr
Jun 21, 5:44 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBEscambia48 hr
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBEscambia61 hr
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBEscambia67 hr
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBEscambia12 days
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBCovington, Escambia3 days
Jun 21, 10:14 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOBBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 4 more6 hr
Jun 21, 11:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia6 hr
Jun 21, 12:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Washington6 hr
Jun 21, 12:35 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more24 hr
Jun 21, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin46 min
Jun 21, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia30 min
Jun 21, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin59 min
Jun 21, 2:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBMobile34 min
Jun 21, 2:59 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin25 min
Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington6 hr
Jun 21, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin52 min
Jun 21, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 4:02 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBMobile3 days
Jun 21, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia43 min
Jun 21, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB92 min
Jun 21, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile38 min
Jun 21, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile86 min
Jun 21, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB63 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin44 min
Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more6 hr
Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB114 min
Jun 21, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin26 min
Jun 21, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Jun 21, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBCovington45 min
Jun 21, 1:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa12 hr
Jun 21, 4:33 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa31 min
Jun 21, 6:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa22 min
Jun 21, 6:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa6 hr
Jun 21, 8:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa3 days
Jun 21, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa45 min
Jun 21, 6:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia42 min
Jun 21, 9:01 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBStone37 min
Jun 21, 9:29 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOBPerry5 days
Jun 21, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMOBStone38 min
Jun 21, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene17 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.