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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL

March 30, 2025Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2025, 2:55 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2025, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 1280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

As transmitted.

635 
WGUS54 KMOB 301955
FFWMOB
ALC003-FLC033-302300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.FF.W.0004.250330T1955Z-250330T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
255 PM CDT Sun Mar 30 2025

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  East Central Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
  West Central Escambia County in northwestern Florida...

* Until 600 PM CDT.

* At 255 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain across the warned area. Between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of 
  rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches are 
  possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected 
  to begin shortly.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

  SOURCE...Radar.

  IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
           areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
           other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
  Molino, Barrineau Park, Tenile, Molino Crossroads, Bay Springs, 
  McKinnon, Brickton, Barth, Pine Barren, Quintette, Cottage Hill 
  and Gateswood.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood 
deaths occur in vehicles.

&&

LAT...LON 3079 8758 3083 8730 3081 8730 3079 8731
      3076 8730 3074 8731 3072 8730 3072 8728
      3071 8727 3069 8726 3065 8726 3063 8725
      3062 8725 3062 8726 3061 8726 3060 8724
      3062 8758

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED

$$

RD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 9:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	50 min
Mar 30, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	38 min
Mar 30, 9:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 10:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 30, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		36 min
Mar 30, 12:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	30 min
Mar 30, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	4 hr
Mar 30, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	54 min
Mar 30, 1:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	4 hr
Mar 30, 3:51 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		18 hr
Mar 30, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Mar 30, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		72 min
Mar 30, 5:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	50 hr
Mar 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		83 min
Mar 30, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	38 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	56 min
Mar 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	62 min
Mar 30, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	4 hr
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	56 min
Mar 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Santa Rosa	3 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.