Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS BHM
NWS BHM issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2000, 2:20 PM CST for 7 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 19, 2000, 2:20 PM CST (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS BHM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 562 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 746 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBHM 192022 FFWBHM ALC007-009-043-073-117-125-127-192315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 220 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... BLOUNT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... CULLMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 515 PM CST. * AT 220 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN...MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM CULLMAN...SOUTH TO TUSCALOOSA AND BIRMINGHAM... AND INTO THE CENTREVILLE AND BRENT AREAS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 OR 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL IN THE WARNED COUNTIES...AS MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. * DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS BHM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BHM | Dallas, Perry | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BHM | Bibb, Blount, Cullman, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and 1 more | 3 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.