Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1990, 5:53 PM CST for Limestone County, Madison County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Morgan 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 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 KHSV 032354
FFWHSV
ALC079-083-089-103-040400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
553 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH ALABAMA
...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...MORGAN
AT 5:50 PM... HUNTSVILLE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN FROM WESTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY DOWN ACROSS MUCH OF
LAWRENCE COUNTY. THE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AND
WILL PASS ACROSS MORGAN... LIMESTONE... MADISON AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES
DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.
BE ESPEC*IALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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, Feb 3, 4:47 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
ALZALL-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 545 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 545 PM CST SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN MISSISSIPPI MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO PICKENS COUNTY OF ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS I]N WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE PREPAIRED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:48 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 445 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR AUTAUGA...LOWNDES... DALLAS...WILCOX AND BUTLER COUNTIES... AT 440 PM CST RADAR AT MONTGOMERY INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FROM ANDALUSIA TO EUFAULA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THROUGH NORTHWEST ALABAMaA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT TONIGHT AND LISTEN NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:53 PM CST, 1 hour before
ALZALL-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 445 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 445 PM CST SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN MISSISSIPPI MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO PICKENS COUNTY OF ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.m PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE PREPAIRED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 43 min |
| Feb 3, 5:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 47 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.