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Flood Watch 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flood watch at Aug 26, 2022, 3:54 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Aug 26, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2022, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 26, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 25, 11:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 11:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:56 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.