Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2000, 4:07 PM CDT for Madison County, 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBMX 042111 COR FFWBHM ALC089-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY LOCATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 407 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 405 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY...JUST EAST OF OWENS CROSSROADS. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MADISON COUNTY SINCE 2 PM. THIS HAS RESULTED IN A THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING OVER THIS AREA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR SO IS POSSIBLE OVER THIS AREA THROUGH 5 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. LAT...LON 3467 8654 3454 8639 3462 8638 3477 8642
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 45 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.