Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 1:10 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 105 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 1:10 PM CST (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 2:55 PM CST
- In force
- 105 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 161911 FFWBHM ALC107-125-063-065-091-170015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 110 PM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...PICKENS COUNTY...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...GREENE COUNTY...HALE COUNTY...MARENGO COUNTY GENERAL RAINS OF THREE TO FIVE INCHES OVER THESE WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA COUNTIES HAVE SATURATED THE GROUND. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE FLOODING POTENTIAL. AS A RESULT STREAMS THAT ARE ALREADY SWOLLEN ARE LIKELY TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS VERY QUICKLY. 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.
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, 7:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 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, 1:21 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
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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.