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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 1998, 6:20 AM CDT for Dallas County, Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 6:20 AM CDT (11:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dallas County, AL, Lowndes County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 291120 FFWBHM ALC047-085-291500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 620 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DALLAS COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA LOWNDES COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 615AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD...AND SOMETIMES HEAVY...RAIN CONTINUING TO SPREAD NORTHWEST ACROSS LOWNDES AND DALLAS COUNTIES. * RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE THAT RAIN TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER PORTIONS OF DALLAS AND LOWNDES COUNTIES DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL SPREAD OVER THESE AREAS THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...AND WITH THE GROUND SATURATED...RUNOFF WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING... ESPECIALLY OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS AND LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 17 min |
| Sep 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| Sep 29, 4:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 12:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 38 min |
| Sep 29, 12:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 32 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.