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Flood Watch 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flood watch at Sep 2, 2023, 4:58 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 2, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2023, 4:58 AM CDT (09:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 2, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2023, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Sep 2, 4:13 AM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 4:13 AM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 114 min |
| Sep 2, 1:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
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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.