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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 22, 19994 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 22, 1999, 7:08 PM CST for 4 counties in 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: Jan 22, 1999, 7:08 PM CST (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1999, 1:10 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Pickens County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 644 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 12.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 230110
FFWBHM
ALC033-057-059-075-077-079-093-107-133-230710-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
708 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COLBERT COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA
  FAYETTE COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  FRANKLIN COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA
  LAMAR COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA
  LAWRENCE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA
  MARION COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA
  PICKENS COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  WINSTON COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 110 AM CST

* RAIN ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA HAS AMOUNTED TO
  BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS.  ADDITIONAL
  RAINS OF MORE THAN 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH AB OUT 1 AM AS
  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OUT OF MISSISSIPPI.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER xCOVERS 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, Jan 22, 2:39 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
339 PM CDT FRI JAN 22 1999

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

0330 PM                              AL   .88 INCH HAIL
01/22/99   PICKENS                        NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN
                                          MCSHAN COMMUNITY...5 MILES
                                          SE OF ETHELSVILLE

Local storm report, Jan 22, 5:50 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
550 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

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

0530 PM                              AL   TORNADO
01/22/99   WINSTON                        TOUCHDOWN NEAR MOUNT
                                          CARMEL COMMUNITY...ABOUT 4
                                          MILE WNW DOUBLE SPRINGS.
                                          CHURCH ROOF BLOWN OFF.
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. MOBILE HOME BLOWN
                                          OVER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 6:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	50 min
Jan 22, 6:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	35 min
Jan 22, 6:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	63 min
Jan 22, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	64 min
Jan 22, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	64 min
Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	6 hr
Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Franklin, Winston	6 hr
Jan 22, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	65 min
Jan 22, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Marion	32 min
Jan 22, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert	34 min
Jan 22, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	35 min
Jan 22, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Limestone	46 min
Jan 22, 9:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Limestone	4 hr
Jan 22, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	47 min
Jan 22, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	34 min
Jan 22, 10:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	35 min
Jan 22, 11:06 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Madison, Morgan	4 hr
Jan 22, 11:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	4 hr
Jan 23, 1:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Limestone	117 min
Jan 23, 1:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Winston	117 min
Jan 23, 2:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	35 min
Jan 23, 3:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	31 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.