1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 3, 2:16 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 216 PM CST SAT MAR 03 2001 DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA TONIGHT. THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO TRACK UP THE EAST COAST...AND WILL BE A BIG SNOW MAKER FOR THE NORTHEAST. OVER ALABAMA...EXPECT HEAVY RAINS TO CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ALABAMA TONIGHT. WILL REISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WILL PROBABLY LEAVE THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES OUT FOR NOW...SINCE THEY HAVE NOT HAD AS MUCH RAIN AS THE SOUTH HAS. THIS WATCH WILL MATCH UP WELL WITH WHAT ATLANTA IS PLANNING ON DOING. NEXT PROBLEM IS WITH SEVERE. SPC HAS A MODERATE RISK OUT OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA TONIGHT. WITH SURFACE LOW TRACKING OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA...THAT AREA WILL REMAIN IN THE WARM SECTOR...AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE GREATEST INSTABILITY. WILL WORD SEVERE FOR MY SOUTHERN MOST COUNTIES. LAST PROBLEM TO DEAL WITH IS COLD TEMPERATURES. CURRENT FORECAST HAS MENTION OF FLURRIES ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY ON SUNDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS AS IF MOST OF THE MOISTURE WILL BE OUT OF THE AREA BY THAT TIME. DONT FEEL AS IF THE CHANCE FOR A FLAKE IS HIGH ENOUGH TO MENTION IN THE ZONES AT THIS TIME...SO WILL REMOVE ANY MENTION OF THE WHITE STUFF FOR NOW. PRELIMS FOLLOW. HSV 48/48 32/41 27 +610 BHM 54/54 32/42 27 +410 MGM 60/60 36/50 30 +310 .BHM...FFA SOUTHEASTERN SECTIO9NS OF FORECAST AREA FOR TONIGHT.
ALZ001>038-040>050-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 135 PM CST SAT MAR 03 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. OVERUNNING RAIN COVERED PORTIONS OF THE STATE NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT AND WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THIS WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT NORTHWARD TONIGHT AND MORE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH ALABAMA THIS EVENING. THE AIRMASS IS STABLE IN NORTH ALABAMA AND SOMEWHAT MORE UNSTABLE ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE BEST INSTABILITIES ARE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN AND MAINLY SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3 PM CST. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...PORTIONS OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA HAVE RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE LIKELIHOOD OF MORE HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL KEEP THE THREAT OF FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING HIGH. AS SUCH... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE STATE GENERALLY SOUTH OF A GADSDEN TO TUSCALOOSA LINE UNTIL 4PM CST. EME5RGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads were covered with high water and impassible.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, March 2001
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