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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 28, 2018, 6:28 AM CST for Clarke County, Wilcox 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
- Dec 28, 2018, 6:28 AM CST (12:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2018, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:32 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
194
WGUS54 KMOB 281228
FFWMOB
ALC025-131-281530-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0044.181228T1228Z-181228T1530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
628 AM CST FRI DEC 28 2018
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Clarke County in southwestern Alabama...
Western Wilcox County in south central Alabama...
* Until 930 AM CST.
* At 626 AM CST, Doppler radar indicated moderate rainfall
continuing across the warned area. Up to 6 inches of rain has
already fallen in some locations. Flash flooding is ongoing and
will only be exacerbated by additional rainfall.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Jackson, Thomasville, Grove Hill, Whatley, Pine Hill, Coffeeville,
Fulton and Yellow Bluff.
Additional rainfall amounts of around an inch are possible in the
warned area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3227 8744 3220 8733 3215 8728 3183 8739
3181 8752 3157 8757 3146 8792 3152 8793
3160 8808 3174 8809 3181 8818 3194 8807
3195 8812 3196 8807 3199 8807 3200 8763
3213 8762 3213 8752 3226 8752 3227 8748
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 6:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:57 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 16 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 7:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 16 hr |
| Dec 27, 7:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 8:24 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 13 days |
| Dec 27, 8:24 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 15 days |
| Dec 27, 8:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:02 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:13 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 16 hr | |
| Dec 28, 2:28 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Dec 28, 2:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 3:08 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 37 min |
| Dec 28, 3:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 19 min |
| Dec 28, 3:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 4:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 4:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 45 min |
| Dec 28, 4:52 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Dec 28, 5:51 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Dec 28, 5:54 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 66 min |
| Dec 28, 6:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 41 min |
| Dec 28, 6:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 6 hr |
| Dec 28, 8:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 52 min |
| Dec 28, 8:38 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Dec 28, 8:42 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 68 min | |
| Dec 28, 9:03 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 27 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:15 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 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.