Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1987, 7:53 AM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1987, 7:53 AM CST (13:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1987, 9:50 AM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 181353 FFWMEI ALC119-181550- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 753 AM CST SUN JAN 18 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EXTREME WEST ALABAMA...SUMTER AT 745 AM CST THE SUCARNOOCHEE CREEK IN LIVINGSTON ALABAMA WAS OVER ITS BANKS AT 19.8 FEET. IT IS NOW RAINING AND MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED TODAY SO THE CREEK WILL RISE EVEN HIGHER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED OR IS IMMENENT. PEOPLE IN THE WARNING AREA SHOULD SEEK HIGH GROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACR=OSS A FLOODED AREA.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 5:43 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 540 AM CST SUN JAN 18 1987 RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA FOR THE LAST 18 TO 20 HOURS AND AT TIMES THE RAIN HAS BEEN HEAVY. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS BEEN ALONG AND 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM ROSE HILL MISSISSIPPI TO GAINSVILLE ALABAMA. TOTAL RAINFALL IN THIS AREA WILL PROBABLY RANGE FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES. AT KEY FIELD IN MERIDIAN THREE AND A QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1241PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS IN THIS AREA WILL BE ON THE RISE DUE TO THE RAINFALL. WITH MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY THOSE OF YOU LIVING ALONG OR NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE WEATHER ALERT TODAY AND LISTEN FOR OTHER STATEMENTS OR POSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 6:03 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 600 AM CST SUN JAN 18 1987 HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS HAVE OCCURRED ALONG A SLOW MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE LINE HAS AFFECTED AN AREA ROUGHLY 50 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A MERIDIAN TO MCCOMB LINE. AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE LIKELY FALLEN ...CAUSING MANY SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS TO RISE QUICKLY. WITH MORE RAIN EXPECTED TODAY...ANYONE LIVING IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA IN THE SOUTH SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF A WARNING ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 6:30 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 620 AM CST SUN JAN 18 1987 ..SUCARNOOCHEE CREEK IN LIVINGSTON ALABAMA HAS RISEN TO BANKFUL.. AT 615AM CST THE LIVINGSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THE SUCARNOOCHEE CREEK AT IT BANKS AND FLOODING IN THE HAPPY HOLLOW AREA. THOSE OF YOU LIVING ALONG OR NEAR THE CREEK SHOULD PREPARE TO LEAVE YOUR HOMES SOON. IT IS RAINING NOW AND WITH MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY THE CREEK SHOULD FLOOD.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 7:15 AM CST, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 705 AM CST SUN JAN 18 1987 ..LOW LYING AREAS IN MERIDIAN STARTING TO FLOOD.. AT 700AM CST THE MERIDIAN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND LAUDERDALE SHERRIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLOODING AT.. 5TH ST AND 45TH AVE 5TH ST AND 29TH AVE 65TH AVE LANDFILL ROAD PARKWAY BLVD SOWASHEE CREEK US 45 22ND AVE HGTS SOUTH OF TOWN NEARLY FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE AIRPORT SINCE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THREE AND 1/2 INCHES OF THAT HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT. THOSE OF YOU LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD PREPARE TO LEAVE YOUR HOMES SINCE IT IS RAINING AND MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED TODAY.
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.