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Flood Watch 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flood watch at Mar 14, 2025, 10:42 AM CDT for 6 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2025, 10:42 AM CDT (15:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Blount County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Mar 14, 6:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 2:32 AM CDT, 8 hours 10 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Birmingham AL 232 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025 ALZ011>015-017>050-151045- Marion-Lamar-Fayette-Winston-Walker-Blount-Etowah-Calhoun-Cherokee- Cleburne-Pickens-Tuscaloosa-Jefferson-Shelby-St. Clair-Talladega- Clay-Randolph-Sumter-Greene-Hale-Perry-Bibb-Chilton-Coosa-Tallapoosa- Chambers-Marengo-Dallas-Autauga-Lowndes-Elmore-Montgomery-Macon- Bullock-Lee-Russell-Pike-Barbour- 232 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham. .DAY ONE...Outlook through Tonight. Some severe storms will be possible across mainly the western half of Central Alabama from 10 pm tonight through 8 am Saturday morning. Damaging winds up to 60 mph, large hail up to quarter size, and a few tornadoes will be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. An outbreak of severe weather is forecast during the afternoon and evening Saturday through early Sunday morning. Damaging winds up to 70 mph, large hail up to golf ball size, and tornadoes, some of which may be strong and long-tracked, are likely during this time frame. There is a Slight Risk of Excessive Rainfall Saturday through Sunday morning. Generally 2-4 inches of rainfall is expected. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of storm spotters and emergency management may be needed Friday night through Sunday morning.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 5 days |
| Mar 14, 10:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo, Sumter | 47 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:59 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 36 hr |
Nearby
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.