Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 1997, 1:08 AM CST for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 1997, 1:08 AM CST (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1997, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 826 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 050708 FFWHSV ALC095-050915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 108 AM CST SUN JAN 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MARSHALL COUNTY AT 105 AM CST MARSHALL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL REPORTED ROADS UNDER WATER DUE TO FLASH FLOODING. SOME OF THE ROADS UNDER WATER WERE...PLEASANT GROVE ROAD...SECTION LINE ROAD...TEAL ROAD...AND BOWMAN ROAD IN MARSHALL COUNTY. MORE THAN 3 INCHES OF RAIN WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR WITH MORE RAIN TO FOLLOW. 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 UP TO HIGHER GROUND. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 58 min |
| Jan 4, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jan 4, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Jan 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 66 min |
| Jan 4, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 59 min |
| Jan 4, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Jan 4, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 64 min |
| Jan 5, 12:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 68 min |
| Jan 5, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 56 min |
| Jan 5, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 61 min |
| Jan 5, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 1:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 1:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 53 min |
| Jan 5, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 52 min |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 45 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.