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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 10, 2006Autauga County, Dallas County, Elmore County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2006, 3:08 PM CDT for Autauga County, Dallas County, Elmore 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 10, 2006, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Autauga County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -268 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KBMX 102009
FFWBMX
ALC001-047-051-102315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
308 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  AUTAUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
  WESTERN ELMORE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE AREA OF WETUMPKA
  NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE AREA OF SELMA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 305 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 COOSA
  RIVER.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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

LAT...LON 3244 8728 3220 8711 3242 8672 3254 8613
      3271 8618 3263 8676 3249 8707

$$
KSL

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KBMX 102127
FFSBMX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
427 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

ALC001-047-051-102315-
DALLAS AL-AUTAUGA AL-ELMORE AL-
427 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR
WESTERN ELMORE...AUTAUGA AND NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTIES...

AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED
AREA.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WETUMPKA AND
COOSA RIVER.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

LAT...LON 3244 8728 3220 8711 3242 8672 3254 8613
      3271 8618 3263 8676 3249 8707

$$
KSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	52 min
May 10, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Tuscaloosa	26 min
May 10, 10:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Dallas, Elmore and 16 more	11 hr
May 10, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	65 min
May 10, 11:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	41 min
May 10, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	52 min
May 10, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	45 min
May 10, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	57 min
May 10, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	61 min
May 10, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	38 min
May 10, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	31 min
May 10, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	50 min
May 10, 12:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	3 hr
May 10, 1:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Sumter	3 hr
May 10, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	28 min
May 10, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	40 min
May 10, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	42 min
May 10, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	37 min
May 10, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	29 min
May 10, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	43 min
May 10, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Winston	116 min
May 10, 2:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	37 min
May 10, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	50 min
May 10, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Perry	39 min
May 10, 2:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Marengo	3 hr
May 10, 2:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa	3 hr
May 10, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	19 min
May 10, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	47 min
May 10, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	35 min
May 10, 3:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Perry	119 min
May 10, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	39 min
May 10, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Talladega	62 min
May 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	62 min
May 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	47 min
May 10, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	119 min
May 10, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	28 min
May 10, 4:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	2 hr
May 10, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	47 min
May 10, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	26 min
May 10, 5:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Marengo, Sumter	2 hr
May 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	52 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.