Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 1994, 3:09 AM CDT for Barbour County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1994, 3:09 AM CDT (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1994, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Henry County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 040812 FFWMGM ALC005-067-041215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 309 AM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...BARBOUR COUNTY...NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY RADAR INDICATED 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE BARBOUR AND NORTHERN HENRY COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND THE STATE TROUPER POST AT EUFAULA CLOSED U.S. HIGHWAY 82 JUST WEST OF THE EUFAULA CITY LIMITS AT 245 AM CDT. THE FLOODING CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR APPROXIMATELY THE NEXT 3 TO 4 HOURS AS THE REMENANTS OF WHAT WAS TROPICAL STORM ALBERTO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD INTO GEORGIA. 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 ZCOVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Jul 4, 1:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
MSZ075>082-LAZ501-ALZ501-040730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 148 AM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 AT 145 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDING FROM NEAR NECAISE IN NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY TO LONG BEACH IN SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY AND OFFSHORE INTO THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND TO NEAR SHIP ISLAND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAINS...THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE A SLOW NORTHEAST MOVEMENT OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS...MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY AFFECTING THE AREAS OF GULFPORT...BILOXI...LYMAN AND WOOL MARKET AS WELL AS THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND BETWEEN PASS CHRISTIAN AND OCEAN SPRINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 59 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.