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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 4, 1999Calhoun County, Cleburne County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1999, 4:18 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 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 4, 1999, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1999, 6:20 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, AL, Cleburne County, AL

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 495 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 042119
FFWBHM
ALC015-029-042320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
418 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CALHOUN COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CLEBURNE COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 620 PM CDT

* AT 4:15 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM THE JACKSONVILLE AND
  ANNISTON AREAS...TO THE HEFLIN AND HOLLIS CROSSROADS AREAS.

  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH.

  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE INDICATED BY RADAR.
  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE PO|SSIBLE.  IN
  ADDITIONAL...HAIL ON AREA ROADS WILL ADD TO THE HAZARDOUS DRIVING
  CONDITIONS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

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 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
153 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0141 PM  0  CLEVELAND                 AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   BLOUNT                         REPORT FROM THE EMA.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:23 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
323 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    ONEONTA                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   BLOUNT

0232 PM    CRANE HILL                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CULLMAN

0250 PM                              AL   .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CLEBURNE                       NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN NEW
                                          HOPEWELL.

0307 PM    CLANTON                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CHILTON

0310 PM    VALLEY HEAD               AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   DEKALB

0310 PM    UNION HILL                AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CLEBURNE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson, Madison	47 min
Jun 4, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	32 min
Jun 4, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	32 min
Jun 4, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	31 min
Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	34 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Winston	34 min
Jun 4, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	33 min
Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	36 min
Jun 4, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	46 min
Jun 4, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	50 min
Jun 4, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	34 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	20 min
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair	48 min
Jun 4, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	51 min
Jun 4, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	49 min
Jun 4, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	46 min
Jun 4, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	47 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	50 min
Jun 4, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	48 min
Jun 4, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	48 min
Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	47 min
Jun 4, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	36 min
Jun 4, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	51 min
Jun 4, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon, Russell	50 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa	51 min
Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	51 min
Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	50 min
Jun 4, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	49 min
Jun 4, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	65 min
Jun 4, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.