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Areal Flood Advisory 222, NWS Mobile, AL

September 17, 2021Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 17, 2021, 12:41 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2021, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2021, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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 Sep 17, 9:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 9:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 17, 10:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1030 AM CDT FRI SEP 17 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1015 AM     FLASH FLOOD      1 SE DESTIN             30.40N 86.49W
09/17/2021                   OKALOOSA           FL   PUBLIC

            SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF FLASH FLOODING WITH
            WATER COVERING ROADWAY ON INDIAN OAKS DR. IN
            DESTIN, FL.

&&

MM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 5:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Sep 17, 6:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Sep 17, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	40 min
Sep 17, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	44 min
Sep 17, 3:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile, Washington	3 hr
Sep 17, 8:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	2 hr
Sep 17, 9:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Okaloosa	2 hr
Sep 17, 9:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	4 hr
Sep 17, 7:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone	3 hr
Sep 17, 8:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Stone	6 hr
Sep 17, 10:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	George	5 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.