Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1990, 11:17 AM CDT for Fayette County, Lamar County, Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1990, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1990, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 271619 FFWBHM ALC057-075-093-271915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1117 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...LAMAR COUNTY...MARION COUNTY HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED THIS MORNING ACROSS THE THREE COUNTY AREA OF FAYETTE...LAMAR...AND MARION. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON U.S. 278 WEST OF SULLIGENT IN LAMAR COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THESE THREE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS OR SO. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS SINCE ROADWAYS ARE SOME OF THE FIRST LOCATIONS TO FLOOD. 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.l 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
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-271400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 556 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA... AT 545 AM PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WINFIELD IN MARION COUNTY. ALSO...RADAR INDICATED A STORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF CULLMAN IN CULLMAN COUNTY THAT MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN AN AREA FROM COLUMBUS MISSISSIPPI TO HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTHERN ALABAMA...EXPECIALLY IN FAYETTE...WALKER...WINSTON...CULLMAN AND BLOUNT COUNTIES...CAN EXPECT STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.
Special weather statement, May 27, 8:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 807 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA... AT 805 AM CENTREVILLE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN ALABAMA EXTENDING INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ALABAMA WERE LOCATED ALONG THE WALKER/WINSTON COUNTY BORDER...NEAR LEWIS SMITH LAKE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI...JUST WEST OF COLUMBUS. THIS STORM WILL EFFECT LAMAR COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. PERSONS IN NORTHERN ALABAMA...EXPECIALLY IN LAMAR...FAYETTE...WALKER...WINSTON...AND CULLMAN COUNTIES...CAN EXP]ECT STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
ALZ004>009-011-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 915 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA... AT 910 AM CENTREVILLE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...STRETCHING BACK INTO EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ALABAMA STRETCHED FROM NEAR CARBON HILL IN WESTERN WALKER COUNTY THROUGH NORTHERN FAYETTE AND LAMAR COUNTIES INTO EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN LAMAR...FAYETTE...WALKER...MARION..AND WINSTON COUNTIES NEED TO BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.