Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 9, 1990, 11:16 PM CST for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 1990, 11:16 PM CST (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1990, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale 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 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 100517
FFWHSV
ALC033-077-100915-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1116 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH ALABAMA
...COLBERT...LAUDERDALE
LAUDERDALE COUNTY EMA HAS REPORTED MANY COUNTY ROADS UNDER WATER WITH
ONE ROAD COVERED BY TWO FEET OF WATER. HEAVY RAINS MOVING THROUGH
LAUDERDALE COUNTY AND IN SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE MAY CAUSE CONTINUED
FLOODING IN LAUDERDALE AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST COLBERT COUNTY OVER
THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN ITe 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 9, 7:16 PM CST, 4 hours before
ALZ010-100300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 715 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 AT 710 PM CST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEARLY 50 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD STAY WEST OF MONTGOMERY BUT MOVE OVER PRATTVILLE BEFORE 8 PM AND NEAR WETUMPKA THIRTY MINUTES LATER. HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 8:41 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ004-005-006-008-009-100400- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 840 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA. AT 838 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MARION...LAMAR...FAYETTE AND WINSTON COUNTIES IN THE NEXT 30 TO 60 MINUTES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA NEED TO BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF WEATHER CONDITIONS TURNS THREATENING.
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 8:42 PM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
ALZ004-005-006-008-009-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 840 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA. AT 838 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MARION...LAMAR...FAYETTE AND WINSTON COUNTIES IN THE NEXT 30 TO 60 MINUTES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA NEED TO BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF WEATHER CONDITIONS TURNS THREATENING.
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 10:48 PM CST, 28 minutes before
ALZ010-100600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1055 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4AM CST FOR COOSA AND TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 11PM UNTIL 6AM FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 10 55PM CST WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL THROUGH SOUTH ALABAMA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTH ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD INTO MISSISSIPPI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDER STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER ALABAMA FOR TONIGHT IS HIGH AND PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS AS WELL A>S OTHER PARTS OF ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT. PETTIT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 8:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 30 min |
| Feb 9, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 34 min |
| Feb 9, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 37 min |
| Feb 9, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 30 min |
| Feb 9, 9:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 47 min |
| Feb 9, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 27 min |
| Feb 9, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Feb 9, 10:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 37 min |
| Feb 9, 11:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 28 min |
| Feb 9, 11:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 47 min |
| Feb 9, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 40 min |
| Feb 9, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 22 min |
| Feb 10, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Feb 10, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 69 min |
| Feb 10, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 68 min |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 2:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 29 min |
| Feb 10, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Feb 10, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 2:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 2:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 30 min |
| Feb 10, 2:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 2:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 3:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 3:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 3:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 37 min |
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.