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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 20016 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 2001, 6:50 PM CST for 6 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 3, 2001, 6:50 PM CST (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2001, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KBMX 040114 CCA
FFWBMX
ALC005-011-081-087-109-113-040345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FORMATTING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
650 PM CST SAT MAR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BARBOUR COUNTY
  BULLOCK COUNTY
  LEE COUNTY
  MACON COUNTY
  PIKE COUNTY
  RUSSELL COUNTY

* UNTIL 945 PM CST

* AT 644 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER
  AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO EASTERN ALABAMA.  THIS RAIN IS
  FALLING IN AN AREA WHERE AN ESTIMATED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.