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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1996, 9:19 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1996, 9:19 PM CST (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lauderdale County, AL, Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 65 min |
| Mar 6, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 7:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 9:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 9:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 10:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 11:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 7:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 118 min |
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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.