Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1995, 12:17 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1995, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1995, 3:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, AL, Etowah County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 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 KBHM 050518 RRA FFWBHM ALC019-055-050915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1217 AM CDT THU OCT 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...ETOWAH COUNTY AT 1215 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHEAST ALABAMA ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE OPAL. THE AREA OF RAIN IS MOVING NORTH AND WILL LIKELY TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OVER THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 4 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGE~RS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Oct 4, 10:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...CONTINUE THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...CONTINUE THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 42 min |
| Oct 4, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 47 min |
| Oct 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 47 min |
| Oct 4, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Oct 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 49 min |
| Oct 4, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 24 min |
| Oct 5, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.