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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 14, 1997Fayette County, Lamar County, Walker County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1997, 4:25 AM CDT for Fayette County, Lamar County, Walker 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: Jun 14, 1997, 4:25 AM CDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Walker County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 140925
FFWBHM
ALC057-075-127-141130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
425 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
   ...LAMAR COUNTY

IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

   ...WALKER COUNTY
 
A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED
ACROSS LAMAR...FAYETTE AND WALKER COUNTIES AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.  THIS AREA HAS ALREADY RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL SINCE
MIDNIGHT AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY FOR THE NEXT
HOUR OR TWO.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	31 min
Jun 13, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	30 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	33 min
Jun 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	36 min
Jun 13, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Franklin	60 min
Jun 14, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	57 min
Jun 14, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Lawrence	65 min
Jun 14, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	65 min
Jun 14, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	34 min
Jun 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	31 min
Jun 14, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	30 min
Jun 14, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	47 min

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.