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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1999, 2:42 PM CDT for Bullock County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 93 min. 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 27, 1999, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1999, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 271946 FFWBHM ALC011-101-272115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 242 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BULLOCK COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. MONTGOMERY COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA. * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 245 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MONTGOMERY AND BULLOCK COUNTIES. STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN MONTGOMERY. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE MORE FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. * 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, Jun 27, 9:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-280000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 922 AM CDT SUN JUN 27 1999 AN UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS EAST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE AREA. THERE STILL IS POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD DEVELOP IN LOW AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY OCCUR IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER TODAY. 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-280000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 922 AM CDT SUN JUN 27 1999 AN UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS EAST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE AREA. THERE STILL IS POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD DEVELOP IN LOW AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY OCCUR IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SLOWLY END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER TODAY. 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, St. Clair | 78 min |
| Jun 27, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 78 min |
| Jun 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 94 min |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 96 min |
| Jun 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.