Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1999, 11:35 AM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 115 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 28, 1999, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1999, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 281639 FFWBHM ALC081-281830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1135 AM CDT MON JUN 28 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY...IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1135 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE RAIN AREA WAS LOCATED EAST OF A LINE FROM...JUST EAST OF BIRMINGHAM...TO NEAR MONTGOMERY. THIS ACTIVITY WILL MOVE INTO LEE COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY REACH TWO INCHES. STATE TROOPERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT NUMEROUS AREAS FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY. HIGHWAY 280 HAS BEEN CLOSED JUST SOUTH OF OPELIKA. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION IS THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION....AND NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER DEPTH IS UNKNOWN. * 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 28, 9:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-290200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 900 AM CDT MON JUN 28 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO AND ACROSS THE SOUTH-CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF ALABAMA AND THE WEST-CENTRAL SECTIONS OF GEORGIA THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AND SOME FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS THE PAST FEW DAYS. 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 28, 9:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-290200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 900 AM CDT MON JUN 28 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO AND ACROSS THE SOUTH-CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF ALABAMA AND THE WEST-CENTRAL SECTIONS OF GEORGIA THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AND SOME FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS THE PAST FEW DAYS. 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 28, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Madison | 119 min |
| Jun 28, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 8:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 12:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 119 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1999Every 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.