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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 6, 2005Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Apr 6, 2005, 5:48 PM CDT for Lamar 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: Apr 6, 2005, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lamar County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KBMX 062249
FFWBMX
ALC075-070145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
548 PM CDT WED APR 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SULLIGENT.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN 
THE WARNED AREA.

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3356 8827 3398 8822 3399 8821 3405 8821
      3405 8799 3404 8799 3403 8796 3354 8795
      3355 8828

$$

12/SIRMON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	44 min
Apr 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	24 min
Apr 6, 1:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	31 min
Apr 6, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Hale	53 min
Apr 6, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	62 min
Apr 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	66 min
Apr 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	33 min
Apr 6, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	48 min
Apr 6, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	41 min
Apr 6, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	54 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2005 Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.