Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 27, 1994, 10:41 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1994, 10:41 PM CST (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1994, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Morgan County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 KHSV 280443 FFWHSV ALC079-083-089-103-280945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1041 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CST S... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...LIMESTONE COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY ...MORGAN COUNTY REPORTS FROM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATE NUMEROUS AREAS OF FLOODING ACROS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION OF NORTH ALABAMA IN LIMESTONE COUNTY THERE WAS ONE FOOT OF ACROSS ROUTE 127 IN MORRIS CROSSROADS. THEY ALSO REPORT WATER ACROSS ROUTE 72 WEST. SEVERAL AREAS IN ATHENS WERE ALSO REPORTED TO BE UNDERWATER. DECATUR POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATE SOME FLOODING THROUGH OUT THE CITY OF DECATUR. IN MADISON COUNTY THERE WERE REPORTS OF FLOODING IN HAZEL GREEN. LAWRENCE COUNTY REPORTED A BRIDGE UNDERWATER ON COUNTY ROUTE 316 NORTH OF COUNTY ROUT 460. THEY ALSO REPORTED WATER ACROSS ROUTE 460 WEST OF MOULTON. IN COURTLAND THERE WAS WATER ACROSS THE SOUTH PIKE. WITH HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS PARTS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY MORE FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UPT 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, Jan 27, 7:24 PM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ040>044-054-057-058-060-280330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 725 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD RAIN...ALONG WITH A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 715 PM CST. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER THE WEST CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE...MAINLY BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND DEMOPOLIS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER CONDITIONS WILL BEf FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 7:25 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
ALZ040>044-054-057-058-060-280330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 725 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD RAIN...ALONG WITH A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 715 PM CST. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER THE WEST CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE...MAINLY BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND DEMOPOLIS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 8:34 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 835 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994 ...STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 833 PM THIS EVENING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL GREENE AND SOUTHEASTERN MARENGO COUNTIES. THESE LINES WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...TORRENTIAL *RAIN... AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE NORTHERN LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO HALE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE SOUTHERN LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WILCOX AND DALLAS COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 8:35 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 835 PM CST THU JAN 27 1994 ...STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 833 PM THIS EVENING...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL GREENE AND SOUTHEASTERN MARENGO COUNTIES. THESE LINES WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...TORRENTIAL RAIN... AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE NORTHERN LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO HALE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE SOUTHERN LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WILCOX AND DALLAS COUNTIES.
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.