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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 1998, 9:50 AM CDT for Barbour County, Bullock County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 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, 9:50 AM CDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Pike County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 291451 FFWBHM ALC005-011-047-085-101-109-292100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 950 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA BULLOCK COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA DALLAS COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA LOWNDES COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA MONTGOMERY COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA PIKE COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 945 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE REMNANTS OF GEORGES IS CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND MOVING VERY SLOWLY EASTWARD. THUS...VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. FLOODING IS OCCURRING ON HIGHWAY 80 EAST NEAR WHITE HALL IN LOWNDES COUNTY. ALSO FLOODING IS OCCURRING ON HIGHWAY 331 NEAR SNOWDOUN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL OF 4 TO 8 INCHES HAS ALREADY OCCURRED OVER THE WARNED AREA...AND AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES IS POSSIBLE TODAY. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL WORSEN THE CURRENT FLOODING AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING WILL DEVELOP. * DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...USE EXTREME CAUTION AS SOME ROADWAYS WILL BE FLOODED. RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL ALSO BE HIGH AND MAY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. &
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, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.