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Areal Flood Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL

September 5, 2018Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this areal flood warning at Sep 5, 2018, 1:50 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 6 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: Sep 5, 2018, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2018, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

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NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Sep 5, 10:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 10:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 5, 10:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:14 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:26 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:30 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:43 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:48 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 1:49 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 8:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	12 hr
Sep 4, 8:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	40 hr
Sep 4, 8:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	4 days
Sep 4, 8:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	70 hr
Sep 4, 9:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	6 hr
Sep 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	12 hr
Sep 5, 12:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	25 min
Sep 5, 2:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Washington	6 hr
Sep 5, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		26 min
Sep 5, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		28 min
Sep 5, 4:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	6 hr
Sep 5, 4:57 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MOB		5 hr
Sep 5, 5:15 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	9 hr
Sep 5, 5:15 AM CDT	High Surf Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	9 hr
Sep 5, 7:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more	6 hr
Sep 5, 8:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington	6 hr
Sep 5, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	6 hr
Sep 5, 9:35 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		115 min
Sep 5, 10:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	5 hr
Sep 5, 12:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	52 min
Sep 4, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	31 min
Sep 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MOB	Santa Rosa	27 min
Sep 5, 3:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	29 min
Sep 5, 3:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	19 min
Sep 5, 9:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	6 hr
Sep 5, 3:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	George, Greene	3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.