Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 1999, 1:38 AM CST for Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 117 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
- Jan 23, 1999, 1:38 AM CST (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1999, 3:35 AM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winston County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 230739 FFWBHM ALC079-083-133-230935- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 138 AM CST SAT JAN 23 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA LIMESTONE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA WINSTON COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 335 AM CST * RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS MOST OF LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...AND WINSTON COUNTIES SINCE LATE AFTERNOON FRIDAY...WITH SOME PORTIONS OF LAWRENCE COUNTY RECEIVING NEARLY 7 INCHES. THIS HAS PRODUCED SEVERAL INSTANCES OF HIGHWAY FLOODING IN THE AFFECTED COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY. MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE AND WINSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 3 AM...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN...COUPLED WITH THAT WHICH HAS ALREADY OCCURRED...WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE AFFECTED COUNTIES THROUGH AT LEAST 330 AM. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
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, Jan 22, 9:29 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
ALZ001>003-011-230405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 929 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN...AND MARION. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINING COUNTIES UNTIL 1 AM.
Local storm report, Jan 22, 10:35 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1035 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM MOULTON AL FLOODING
01/22/99 LAWRENCE FLOODING IN DOWNTOWN
MOULTON. EMA REPORTS
EVACUATIONS IN PROGRESS.Special weather statement, Jan 22, 11:17 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
ALZ004-012>014-022-030-031-230620- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1117 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE... LAMAR... FAYETTE... WINSTON... PICKENS... SUMTER ...GREENE THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINING COUNTIES UNTIL 1 AM.
Special weather statement, Jan 23, 12:09 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
ALZ005-007-015-023-230630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1209 AM CST SAT JAN 23 1999 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LIMESTONE... MORGAN... WALKER... TUSCALOOSA THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.
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 | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 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, 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
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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.