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Areal Flood Advisory 28, NWS Mobile, AL

May 5, 2021Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this areal flood advisory at May 5, 2021, 1:44 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2021, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2021, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

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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 May 5, 12:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 12:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 8:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 8:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 9:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 9:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 9:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 12:52 PM CDT, 52 minutes 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
May 4, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
May 4, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington, Escambia	62 min
May 4, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	57 min
May 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	32 min
May 4, 8:15 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	29 hr
May 4, 8:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	6 hr
May 4, 8:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	6 hr
May 4, 8:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	6 hr
May 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		94 min
May 5, 12:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	4 hr
May 5, 1:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	6 hr
May 5, 2:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	23 hr
May 5, 2:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	22 hr
May 5, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		85 min
May 5, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
May 5, 7:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
May 5, 7:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		86 min
May 5, 7:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	6 hr
May 5, 8:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	7 days
May 5, 8:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox	4 days
May 5, 8:31 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		59 min
May 5, 8:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	4 hr
May 5, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		88 min
May 5, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	96 min
May 5, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
May 4, 8:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	48 hr
May 4, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	68 min
May 4, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	4 hr
May 5, 2:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Santa Rosa	4 hr
May 5, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Jackson	40 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.