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Areal Flood Advisory 165, NWS Mobile, AL

August 3, 2021Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 3, 2021, 3:27 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2021, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2021, 5:34 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 12:00Z on 2021-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 928 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 12:00Z on 2021-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Aug 3, 12:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 12:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:33 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB87 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Florida, 2021Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.