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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this areal flood warning at Mar 28, 2014, 6:39 AM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2014, 6:39 AM CDT (11:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2014, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 28, 2:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 2:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 6:03 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 603 AM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014 ALZ011>015-017>050-291115- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 603 AM CDT FRI MAR 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A CARROLLTON TO BROOKWOOD TO SELMA LINE THROUGH NOON OR UNTIL THE RAIN MOVES OUT OF THE AREA. THIS AREA HAS ALREADY SEEN UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN AND MAY SEE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN THROUGH THE MORNING. WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THE SECOND ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT. IT APPEARS THAT THERE MAY TWO AREAS OF CONCERN THAT COMBINED COVER THE ENTIRE WESTERN HALF OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ENDING EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE AREA THURSDAY. THERE ARE STILL SOME TIMING DIFFERENCES TO BE WORKED OUT BETWEEN MODELS...BUT AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AS WELL AS THURSDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 3:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 6:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 4 days |
| Mar 28, 9:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 4 days |
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.