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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

March 30, 2025Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this areal flood warning at Mar 30, 2025, 11:38 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2025, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 3238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 warning went out at Mar 30, 6:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 6:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 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
Mar 30, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Mar 30, 8:59 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	20 hr
Mar 30, 11:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	6 hr
Mar 31, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	41 min
Mar 31, 8:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox	45 min
Mar 31, 9:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	59 min
Mar 31, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Mar 31, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	65 min
Mar 31, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	43 min
Mar 31, 10:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Crenshaw	41 min
Mar 31, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Mar 31, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	66 min
Mar 31, 11:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Covington	24 min
Mar 31, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		92 min
Mar 31, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		20 min
Mar 31, 6:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	47 min
Mar 31, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Stone	51 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.