Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1989, 4:45 PM CDT for Bibb County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1989, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 1433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KBHM 192147
FFWBHM
ALC007-192345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
445 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH ALABAMA
...BIBB
HEAVY RAIN DURING THE PAST HOUR HAVE CAUSED NUMEROUS ROADWAYS
THROUGHOUT BIBB COUNTY ESPECIALLY THE CENTREVILLE TO BECOME COVERED
WITH WATER. RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER MOST OF BIBB COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.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
Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 120 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 HOUSTON COUNTY...105PM CDT...TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN AT COTTONWOOD SOUTH OF DOTHAN. REPORT FROM HOUSTON COUNTY EMA. WARNINGS OUT NONE. 120PM...AT WEBB IN HOUSTON COUNTY...TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN. NEAR COTTONWOOD WITH SECOND STORM OVER AREA TREES AND POWER LINE DOWN. REPORT FROM HOUSTON COUNTY EMA. WARNING IN EFFECT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...111-215PM CDT.n PETTIT
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 219 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN INTENSITY ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 219 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT CENTREVILLE INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL IN MARENGO COUNTY NEAR LINDEN. THIS STORM WAS MOVINMG EAST SOUTHEAST. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF BIRMINGHAM. PERSONS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAM NEED TO BE ALERT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS STORMS WILL BE INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS WE GET INTO THE HEAT OF THE DAY. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EAST AND SOUTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH ARE GADSDEN...ANNISTON...CENTREVILLE...MONTGOMERY AND DOTHAN.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 220 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND MUCH OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOR THIS AFTERNOON... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS....SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WILCOX...NORTHERN BUTLER...AND SOUTH MONTGOMERY COUNTIES AT 220PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER BARBOUR...DALE...HENRY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES. A LONE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. NEW STORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER WEST ALABAMA. PATCHES OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS COVERED THE REST OF SOUTH ALABAMA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR NEAR THE HEAVIER STORMS. LOW LAND AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING CONTINUES OVER MANY COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. PETTIT
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 308 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 305 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT CENTREVILLE INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHWEST BLOUNT COUNTY INTO CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AS THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH CULLMAN COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN PERRY AND MARENGO COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAM NEED TO BE ALERT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS STORMS WILL BE INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS WE GET INTO THE HEAT OF THE DAY. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EAST AND SOUTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH ARE GADSDEN...ANNISTON...CENTREVILLE...MONTGOMERY AND DOTHAN.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 333 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN ALABAMA. AT 333 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY AFFECTING SWEETWATER AND WILL BE NEAR DIXON MILLS BEFORE 4 PM CCT. DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...PERSONS NEED TO BE ALERT FOR LOCALIZED STREET AND LOW LYING FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND HUNTSVILLE. ALL STORM<S WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AS WE ARE NOW GETTING MAXIMUM HEATING AND THE AIR OVER US IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:24 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 420 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND MUCH OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOR THIS AFTERNOON... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS....SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM DADEVILLE TO TALLASSEE...RAMER AND NEAR GREENVILLE AT 415 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN MARION AND THOMASVILLE IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTH ALABAMA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY OCCUR NEAR THE HEAVIER STORMS. LOW LAND AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING CONTINUES OVER MANY COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.