1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 1:55 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 255 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2001 UPPER TROF, DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE, AND WET WEATHER WILL CONTINUE OVER THE FORECAST AREA INTO MONDAY. DRYING WILL PROGRESS SOUTHWARD INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH ON MONDAY AS A FRONT MOVES IN AND THE UPPER TROF BEGINS TO PUSH EAST. FOR MOST OF THE AREA, LIKELY POPS WILL BE NEEDED AGAIN MONDAY, BUT DRYING SHOULD OCCUR SOON ENOUGH TO ONLY NEED A CHANCE POP IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY, AND ONLY FOR THE MORNING HOURS. THE FRONT STALLS OVER THE AREA, BUT A NORTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE THE GRADUAL DRYING, AND BY TUESDAY, IT SHOULD BE NOTICEABLY LESS HUMID NORTH WITH ONLY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH. NIGHTTIME LOWS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME A BIT LOWER AS MOISTURE DECREASES, BUT DAYTIME HIGHS WILL ACTUALLY BE WARMER. I WILL ADJUST TONIGHTS POPS AT THE LAST MINUTE TO REFLECT LATEST RADAR TRENDS, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, I WILL USE 40-50%. HSV 072/087 068/090 5410 BHM 072/085 070/090 5630 MGM 072/086 072/090 5743 .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>050-122140- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 140 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A WARM...MOIST TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WILL OCCUR ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL SINCE FRIDAY. WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS...FLOODING OF LOW LYING OR POORLY DRAINED AREAS WILL OCCUR. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINS WILL PRODUCE STANDING WATER ON AREA ROADS... AND MAY CAUSE RAPID RISES OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR... LOCAL TV AND RADIO...FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS TODAY OR TONIGHT. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 1 BIRMINGHAM IS 1 MONTGOMERY IS 1 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A WET MICROBURST IS... VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO/HWO.HTML
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads were temporarily covered by high water and were very hazardous to travel on. The area mainly affected by the heavy rainfall was just north of Huntsville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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