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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 19, 2003Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2003, 2:26 AM CDT for Pike 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2003, 2:26 AM CDT (07:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2003, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KBMX 190729
FFWBHM
ALC109-191130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
226 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 224 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE GOSHEN...TROY...AND BRUNDIDGE.  

A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST TO EAST OVER 
PIKE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.  THIS CLUSTER WILL PRODUCE 
AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH UP TO 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE.

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.

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.

CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT FLOODING CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3166 8610 3189 8613 3191 8581 3188 8568
          3173 8571

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 11:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lowndes	2 hr
Jun 19, 12:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lowndes	3 hr
Jun 19, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	29 min
Jun 19, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	44 min
Jun 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	40 min
Jun 19, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	32 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.