Flash Flood Warning
Beginning: 2020-09-16T17:34:00
Ending: 2020-09-16T19:30:00
Extension in Time
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA
COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... NORTHWESTERN
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA... SANTA ROSA COUNTY
IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT.
* AT 1233 PM CDT, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN IN THE WESTERN
FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. BETWEEN 10 AND 25 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
HAZARD...LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.
SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
IMPACT...LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN AREAS, HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... FORT WALTON BEACH, CRESTVIEW, DESTIN, BAY
MINETTE, PACE, MILTON, SPANISH FORT, FLORALA, CENTURY, FLOMATON, BAGDAD, LAKE LORRAINE, BAKER, STAPLETON,
MOLINO, JAY, LAUREL HILL, LOCKHART, CINCO BAYOU AND POLLARD.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING