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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2019, 2:05 PM CDT for Barbour County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2019, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2019, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barbour County, AL, Russell County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:55 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ene Russell Co Sports, AL | A FEW ROADS WERE IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING BETWEEN SEALE AND PHENIX CITY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
563
WGUS54 KBMX 081905
FFWBMX
ALC005-113-082200-
/O.NEW.KBMX.FF.W.0002.190608T1905Z-190608T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Birmingham AL
205 PM CDT Sat Jun 8 2019
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northeastern Barbour County in southeastern Alabama...
Russell County in southeastern Alabama...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 205 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two inches of rain has
already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in the
warned area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life.
&&
LAT...LON 3222 8493 3222 8497 3221 8498 3220 8496
3218 8501 3213 8506 3202 8505 3193 8509
3191 8511 3190 8526 3199 8542 3208 8533
3247 8517 3247 8506 3250 8506 3251 8500
3246 8500 3242 8496 3233 8501 3227 8490
$$
61The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 66 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.