Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 7:06 AM CST for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 7:06 AM CST (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 KBHM 161308 FFWBHM ALC121-161615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 706 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...TALLADEGA COUNTY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING CONTINUE OVER TALLAGEDA COUNTY WHERE MANY AREAS HAVE NOW RECEIVED BETWEEN 5 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS WARNING IS A CONTINUATION OF THE WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT EARLIER. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 1:23 AM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 120 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SECTIONS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA TO INCLUDE CITIES SUCH AS AUBURN...ALEXANDER CITY...MONTGOMERY... SELMA AND CAMDEN FOR FRIDAY... LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES OVER MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. AT 115 AM CST...RADAR ALSO INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT EXTENDED FROM NORTH CENTRAL LOWNDES COUNTY NORTH INTO AUTAUGA COUNTY...ON INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF COOSA AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ELMORE COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL BE EFFECTING THE CITIES OF MONTGOEMRY...PRATTVILLE...MILLBROOK AND WETUMPKA THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...POSSILBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH WILL INCREASE THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUWR. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 3:05 AM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 310 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SECTIONS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA TO INCLUDE CITIES SUCH AS AUBURN...ALEXANDER CITY...MONTGOMERY... SELMA AND CAMDEN FOR FRIDAY... LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES OVER MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. AT 300 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN LOWNDES...MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHERN ELMORE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. AT DANNELLY FIELD IN MONTGOMERY...OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR BRINGING THE TOTAL TO OVER FOUR INCHES SINCE THE RAIN STARTED ON THURSDAY. THE STORMS HAVE SLOWED THEIR EASTWARD MOVEMENT AND MORE LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chilton | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 11:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 118 min |
| Mar 16, 1:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Tuscaloosa | 105 min |
| Mar 16, 1:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pickens | 105 min |
| Mar 16, 1:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne, Randolph | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Perry | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 3:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Marshall, Morgan | 3 hr |
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.