Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1990, 4:59 PM CST for Barbour County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 4:59 PM CST (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Pike 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 162300
FFWMGM
ALC005-031-039-109-170100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
459 PM CST FRI MAR 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...BARBOUR...COFFEE...COVINGTON...PIKE
WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN BARBOUR
COUNTY SOUTHWARD THROUGH SOUTHERN PIKE...COFFEE ON INTO COVINGTON
COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING AND MOVING UP THE LINE. AS
A RESULT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE PERIODICALLY
PASSING OVER THE SAME AREA SEVERAL TIMES AN HOUR PRODUCING LARGE
AMOUNTS OF RAIN.
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, 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 | 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.