Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 4:28 AM CST for Choctaw County, Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 4:28 AM CST (10:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Sumter 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 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 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 161028 FFWMEI ALC023-119-161430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL 428 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CHOCTAW COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SUMTER COUNTY AT 428 AM CST RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF TORRENTIAL RAIN COVERING SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES. DUE TO PAST HEAVY RAINS, EXTENSIVE STREET AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLIOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. 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
Local storm report, Feb 16, 2:18 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
210 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990
...CORRECTION TO STARTING TIME..
BETWEEN 1202 AM AND 1209 AM JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED
CONTINUOUS NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN STRINGER MISSISSIPPI.
(JASPER COUNTY)Special weather statement, Feb 16, 2:37 AM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
MSZALL-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 230 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 43 CONTINUES FOR NORTH EAST MISSISSIPPI FROM PHILADELPHIA NORTHWARD TO FULTON UNTIL 4 AM... ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 42 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 4 AM... STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT HAVE PRODUCED VERY UNSTABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER MISSISSIPPI. AT 230 AM CST...A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FROM NEWTON TO TYLERTOWN...WHILE ANOTHER BAND EXTENDED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EASTERN LOUISIANA FROM HOLLY BLUFF MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THESE BANDS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. > PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE ALSO INDICATED OVER MAINLY SOUTHEAST AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 3:13 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
MSZALL-161000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 310 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 43 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTH EAST MISSISSIPPI FROM PHILADELPHIA NORTHWARD TO FULTON UNTIL 4 AM... ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 42 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 4 AM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE REDEVELOPING IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. AT 300 AM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE REPORTED FROM LEXINGTON TO VICKSBURG TO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THSES STORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND..HEAVY RAIN..HAIL AND LIGHTNING. REPORTS FROM THE VICKSBURG AREA INDICATE WINDS OF NEAR 50 MPH. ANOTHER LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM TYLERTOWN TO COLLINS TO NEWTON. GENERAL MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTH OF NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 3:51 AM CST, 37 minutes before
MSZALL-161030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 350 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 44 IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 10 AM... AT 330 AM CST...TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...CONTINUED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE FIRST LINE WAS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE AND LOCATED BETWEEN MERIDIAN AND MCCOMB. HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS BETWEEN QUITMAN AND COLLINS. THE SECOND LINE WAS ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM KOSCIUSKO TO NATCHEZ. HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WITHIN THIS AREA WAS LOCATED NEAR KOSCIUSKO AND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF NATCHEZ. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 3:58 AM CST, 30 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-161130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 355 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 44 IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 1000 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. FLOODING CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE AREA. ROADS CONTINUE TO BE IMPASSABLE. RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO FLOOD AS MORE HEAVY RAIN IS DEVELOPING WEST OF THE AREA. AT 350 AM RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA EXTENDING AS FAR WEST AS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. IF WATER IS THREATENING YOUR HOME MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. MORNING TRAVELERS SHOU LD CALL AHEAD TO THERE DESTINATIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL ROADS ARE PASSABLE BEFORE THEY LEAVE. YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SERIOUS WEATHER SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE MORNING HOURS.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 4:15 AM CST, 13 minutes before
MSZ002-003-006-008-010-011-012-014-161100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 410 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 44 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 10 AM... AT 400 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN MSISSISSIPPI. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM PHILADELPHIA TO MONTICELLO TO TYLERTOWN. HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI-LOUISIANA BORDER SOUTH OF MCCOMB. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS ...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES DOES EXIST. PERSONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 52 min |
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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.