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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 1998, 12:29 PM EDT for Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia. 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, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Quitman County, GA, Stewart County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 291630 FFWBHM GAC239-259-292230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1129 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... QUITMAN COUNTY... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA STEWART COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT (530 PM CDT) * AT 1125 AM CDT (1225 PM EDT)... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER QUITMAN AND STEWART COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH OVER THE SAME AREA WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN LOW AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. * 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, Sep 29, 11:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-300240- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1007 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 GEORGES HAS NOW WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION...AND WAS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...CAN BE EXPECTED EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM...TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM CDT/8 PM EDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SAME AREA THROUGH TODAY. AS LONG AS THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION REMAINS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THERE WILL BE LITTLE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER OVER NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...AND MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. 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, Sep 29, 11:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-300240- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1007 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 GEORGES HAS NOW WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION...AND WAS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...CAN BE EXPECTED EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM...TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM CDT/8 PM EDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SAME AREA THROUGH TODAY. AS LONG AS THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION REMAINS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THERE WILL BE LITTLE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER OVER NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...AND MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. 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/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 36 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.