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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 4:16 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 23, 2002, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2002, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lauderdale County, AL, Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 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 232216 FFWBHM ALC077-083-240200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 415 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LIMESTONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 410 PM CST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT NUMEROUS ROADWAYS ACROSS LAUDERDALE COUNTY WITH WATER FLOWING ACROSS THEM...AND THESE ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ALSO OCURRED OVER SOUTHERN TENNESSEE...AND THIS RUNOFF WILL BE FLOWING INTO THE SHOAL CREEK AND ELK RIVER BASINS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM EARLIER SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO 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 COULD ALSO STILL HAVE FLOODING GOING ON. 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 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.
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KBMX 232329 FFSBHM ALC077-083-240100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 528 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR LAUDERDALE AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CST. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS CONTINUE SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA. FLOODING WILL STILL REMAIN POSSIBLE AS RAINFALL FROM THESE SHOWERS IS ADDED TO THE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER RAINFALL. HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED OVER SOUTHERN TENNESSEE HAS BEEN HELPING TO KEEP RIVERS AND STREAMS HIGH. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT CONSIDERABLE FLOODING OVER LAUDERDALE AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES...WITH NUMEROUS ROADWAYS UNDER WATER AND CLOSED. BECAUSE OF THIS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST. 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.
000 WGUS74 KBMX 240106 FFSBHM ALC077-083-240200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 706 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR LAUDERDALE AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CST. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOW THAT THE SCATTERED SHOWERS HAVE MOVED OF INTO TENNESSEE. FLOODING WILL STILL REMAIN POSSIBLE AS RAINFALL FROM THESE SHOWERS IS ADDED TO THE RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER RAINFALL. HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED OVER SOUTHERN TENNESSEE HAS BEEN HELPING TO KEEP RIVERS AND STREAMS HIGH. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT CONSIDERABLE FLOODING OVER LAUDERDALE AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES...WITH NUMEROUS ROADWAYS UNDER WATER AND CLOSED. BECAUSE OF THIS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 4:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 7:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 10:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone | 6 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.