Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 5:37 AM CST for Autauga County, Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 5:37 AM CST (11:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 7:45 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Autauga County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery 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, 11.6 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
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 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 KMGM 161139
FFWMGM
ALC001-037-047-085-101-161345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
537 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...AUTAUGA...COOSA...DALLAS...LOWNDES...MONTGOMERY
WEATHER RADARS CONTINUE TO SHOW MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IN THESE
COUNTIES. MONTGOMERY HAS HAD 3.75 INCHES OR RAIN SINCE MIDNIGHT WITH
AT TOTAL OF 6.75 INCHES SINCE APPROXIMATELY 1PM YESTERDAY. AMOUNTS IN
SOME AREAS MAY HAVE TOTALED AS MUCH AS 8 INCHES OR MORE. FLOODING OF
ROADS AND LOW AREAS HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS.
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.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, 4:34 AM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
FLZ001>004-160630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF FLORIDA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA... OKALOOSA AND WALTON COUNTIES OF FLORIDA TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 430 AM CST...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA TO MOBILE BAY AND OUT OVER THE GULF TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE BAND OF STORMS WAS DRIFTING TO THE EAST AT NEAR 5 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN SURROUNDED THE THUNDERSTORMS AND WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPeI...SOUTH ALABAMA...AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 5:35 AM CST, 2 minutes before
FLZ001>004-160630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 AM CST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF FLORIDA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA... OKALOOSA AND WALTON COUNTIES OF FLORIDA TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 530 AM CST...A BAND OF SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA OUT OVER THE GULF TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS BEING PRODUCED OVER THE AREAS MENTIONED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE GULF SOUTH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery | 115 min |
| Mar 16, 3:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Lowndes | 115 min |
| Mar 16, 4:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coosa | 117 min |
| Mar 16, 4:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 117 min |
| Mar 16, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Pike | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Bullock | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 9:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw, Pike | 117 min |
| Mar 16, 10:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 11:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock, Pike | 68 min |
| Mar 16, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee, Macon | 58 min |
| Mar 16, 3:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Bullock, Pike | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Macon | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 55 min |
| Mar 16, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Barbour, Pike | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 59 min |
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.