Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1998, 9:58 AM CDT for Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 117 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
- Aug 16, 1998, 9:58 AM CDT (14:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1998, 11:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 161458 FFWBHM ALC083-089-161655- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 958 AM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1155 AM CDT * AT 955 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST LIMESTONE AND NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY NORTHEAST. * 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST LIMESTONE AND NORTHERN MADISON COUNTIES DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROADS NEAR TONEY AND ALSO NEAR HAZEL GREEN IN NORTHERN MADISON AND ALSO ACROSS ROUTE 251 IN NORTHEAST LIMESTONE COUNTY. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS... AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND... SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 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, Aug 16, 9:53 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-170245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 AM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998 THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAINS MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LINGER ACROSS EXTREME NORTH ALABAMA PRODUCING FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO RISE AND CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOOD. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE ADVANCING NORTHWARD FROM THE GULF AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA BY NOON. GIVEN THE RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS... ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM RAINFALL TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON FOR MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS THE STATE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY...BUT HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ISOLATED FLOODING CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 9:53 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-170245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 AM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998 THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAINS MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LINGER ACROSS EXTREME NORTH ALABAMA PRODUCING FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO RISE AND CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOOD. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE ADVANCING NORTHWARD FROM THE GULF AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA BY NOON. GIVEN THE RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS... ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM RAINFALL TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON FOR MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS THE STATE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY...BUT HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ISOLATED FLOODING CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
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.