Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 5:37 AM CST for Coosa 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
County Coosa 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 89 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.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 | Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas | 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.