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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 27, 200931 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood watch at Feb 27, 2009, 4:56 AM CST for 31 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Feb 27, 2009, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 2009, 4:56 AM CST (10:56 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 27, 2009, 1:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 28, 2009, 6:00 AM CST
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Flood severity
None
All 31 counties

Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2009-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2009-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Feb 27, 4:02 AM CST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 4:02 AM CST, 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 8:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Pickens54 min
Feb 27, 8:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette, Walker51 min
Feb 27, 8:39 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXPickens38 min
Feb 27, 9:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens, Tuscaloosa49 min
Feb 27, 10:17 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXSt. Clair, Shelby, Talladega28 min
Feb 27, 10:25 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 10 more3 hr
Feb 27, 11:26 AM CSTLake Wind AdvisoryBMXAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more7 hr
Feb 27, 12:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas, Marengo, Perry39 min
Feb 27, 12:22 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXPickens, Tuscaloosa3 hr
Feb 27, 12:50 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXDallas40 min
Feb 27, 1:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga, Chilton, Dallas45 min
Feb 27, 1:16 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Chilton29 min
Feb 27, 1:28 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Dallas, Lowndes62 min
Feb 27, 1:38 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Elmore, Montgomery67 min
Feb 27, 2:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXBibb, Jefferson, Shelby3 hr
Feb 27, 2:24 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXPickens66 min
Feb 27, 2:28 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLowndes, Montgomery28 min
Feb 27, 2:32 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa58 min
Feb 27, 2:42 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Pickens63 min
Feb 27, 3:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa42 min
Feb 27, 3:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXPickens, Tuscaloosa3 hr
Feb 27, 3:17 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTuscaloosa28 min
Feb 27, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa65 min
Feb 27, 3:42 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXHale, Perry18 min
Feb 27, 3:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa57 min
Feb 27, 3:57 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBibb, Chilton, Hale, Perry63 min
Feb 27, 4:20 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, Perry40 min
Feb 27, 4:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa39 min
Feb 27, 4:51 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa20 min
Feb 27, 4:52 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 14 more6 hr
Feb 27, 4:57 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Perry53 min
Feb 27, 5:03 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter42 min
Feb 27, 5:19 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXDallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter41 min
Feb 27, 5:29 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Marengo, Sumter46 min
Feb 27, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Chilton, Elmore, Montgomery37 min
Feb 27, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter45 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.