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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 6, 2006Jefferson County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 6, 2006, 1:10 PM CST for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 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: Feb 6, 2006, 1:10 PM CST (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2006, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 590 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 744 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 061916 CCA
FFWBMX
ALC073-062305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION FOR EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
110 PM CST MON FEB 06 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A


* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VILLAGE CREEK IN JEFFERSON COUNTY

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 105 PM RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER THE VILLAGE CREEK BASIN AND
WAS PRODUCING RISES ON THE CREEK... AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS
IN EFFECT.


* FOR VILLAGE CREEK AT AVENUE W...
   MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.

  LATEST STAGE...WAS 9.4 FEET AT 12 PM MONDAY.
  FLOOD STAGE...IS 10 FEET.

  THE FORECAST...FOR VILLAGE CREEK AT AVENUE W...
  THE CREEK WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY 115 PM MONDAY.
  IT WILL CREST 10.5 TO 11 FEET BY 230 PM MONDAY.
  IT WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY 330 PM MONDAY.


TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE  TOO GREAT TO ALLOW
YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY
MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING PICKUPS.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGH GROUND.



YOU CAN REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
1-800-856-0758.



LAT...LON 3348 8729 3329 8704 3358 8659 3383 8678

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 6, 1:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	110 min
Feb 6, 4:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	3 hr

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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.