Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 7:52 AM CST for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 7:52 AM CST (13:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallapoosa 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 837 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 161356
FFWMGM
ALC123-161500-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
752 AM CST FRI FEB 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CST
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...TALLAPOOSA
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED A FEW MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDER
CITY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH..
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa | 56 min |
| Feb 16, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga, Elmore | 59 min |
| Feb 16, 7:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 min |
| Feb 16, 7:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 68 min |
| Feb 16, 8:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Feb 16, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw, Pike | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock, Macon | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 9:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 62 min |
| Feb 16, 9:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington | 67 min |
| Feb 16, 9:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour, Dale | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 10:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dale | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry, Houston | 62 min |
| Feb 16, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva | 62 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.