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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 2, 1999Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1999, 3:18 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 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 2, 1999, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:03 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:03 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marshall	33 min
Jun 2, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	48 min
Jun 2, 1:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marshall	18 min
Jun 2, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	64 min
Jun 2, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	63 min
Jun 2, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	61 min
Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb	32 min
Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	49 min
Jun 2, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	48 min
Jun 2, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	63 min
Jun 2, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cherokee	32 min
Jun 2, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	61 min
Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	61 min
Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	64 min
Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	50 min
Jun 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	47 min
Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	48 min
Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	64 min
Jun 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	34 min
Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	64 min
Jun 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1999 Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.