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Flood Watch 5, NWS Mobile, AL

December 14, 2022Choctaw County, Alabama; Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flood watch at Dec 14, 2022, 3:13 AM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama; Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It took effect at Dec 14, 2022, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2022, 3:13 AM CST (09:13 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 14, 2022, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 14, 2022, 6:55 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Flood severity: None

Counties Choctaw County, AL, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 433 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Dec 13, 11:32 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 11:32 PM CST, 3 hours 41 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
Dec 13, 7:30 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	8 days
Dec 13, 7:31 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	8 days
Dec 14, 7:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	43 min
Dec 14, 10:01 AM CST	Coastal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	16 hr
Dec 14, 10:01 AM CST	High Surf Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	29 hr
Dec 14, 12:51 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		39 min
Dec 14, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	49 min
Dec 14, 4:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Monroe	49 min
Dec 14, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	47 min
Dec 14, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	47 min
Dec 14, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	40 min
Dec 14, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	52 min
Dec 14, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	41 min
Dec 14, 5:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	49 min
Dec 14, 4:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Jones	43 min
Dec 14, 5:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	33 min
Dec 14, 1:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	40 min
Dec 14, 2:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	16 min
Dec 14, 3:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	41 min
Dec 14, 3:21 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Wayne	3 hr
Dec 14, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	40 min
Dec 14, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	49 min
Dec 14, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	36 min
Dec 14, 5:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Greene	26 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.