Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 2003, 6:02 PM CDT for Talladega 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2003, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KBMX 162306 FFWBHM ALC121-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 602 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TALLADEGA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 558 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF TALLADEGA COUNTY. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF 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. MOST FLASH FLOODING DEATHS ARE AUTOMOBILE RELATED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT FLOODING CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3364 8613 3320 8639 3320 8621 3356 8592 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 30 min |
| May 16, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 55 min |
| May 16, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 30 min |
| May 16, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 60 min |
| May 16, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 59 min |
| May 16, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 21 min |
| May 16, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 51 min |
| May 16, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 58 min |
| May 16, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 59 min |
| May 16, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 16, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 54 min |
| May 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 51 min |
| May 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 37 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 41 min |
| May 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 9 min |
| May 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 33 min |
| May 16, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 46 min |
| May 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 25 min |
| May 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 31 min |
| May 16, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 58 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.