1 heavy rain, 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 Jun 30, 8:53 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 00Z AREA SOUNDINGS SHOWING PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES QUICKLY APPROACHING 2 INCHES THIS EVENING. TROPICAL STORM BILL CURRENTLY NEAR LAKE PONCHARTRAIN MOVING NORTHEAST. SEVERAL CONVECTIVE BANDS ROTATING AROUND BILL AND INTO THE FORECAST AREA. STILL FEEL THE 2 TO 4 INCH TOTAL RAIN AMOUNTS THROUGH TOMORROW ARE WELL WITHIN REACH. THEREFORE...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES. CURRENT ZONES/GRIDS ARE DEPICTING SENSIBLE WEATHER VERY WELL. UPDATE THIS EVENING CONSISTS OF SLIGHT WIND DIRECTION AND SPEED CHANGES...TEMPERATURE TRENDS... AND MAINLY SHOWERS FAR NORTH. ALL ELSE LOOKS GOOD. SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL MAY CREEP INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE MORNING...ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONGER CONVECTIVE BANDS. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE ISOLATED TORNADOES AND GUSTY WINDS. HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK HAS BEEN MODIFIED. .BHM...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. ML/75
ALZ011>015-017>050-010230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 730 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (TONIGHT)... MOISTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH TROPICAL STORM BILL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY WARNING AREA FOR TONIGHT. THIS WATCH WILL MOST LIKELY BE EXTENDED...AND POSSIBLE ADJUSTED AS NEEDED...TOMORROW MORNING. THE MAIN CONCERN IS LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL...AND THIS COULD LEAD TO SOME POTENTIAL FLOODING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR TONIGHT. ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LIVINGSTON TO MARION TO PRATTVILLE TO ECLECTIC TO TUSKEGEE TO PITTSVIEW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BILL WILL MOVE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...THEN MOVE INTO SECTIONS OF ALABAMA THROUGHOUT TUESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE...AND THIS COULD LEAD TO SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS. IN ADDITION...ALONG AND NEAR THE TRACK OF THE SURFACE LOW...THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND ESPECIALLY ON TUESDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
The daily rainfall at the Birmingham airport was 2.65 inches which broke the old record for daily maximum rainfall of 2.29 inches set back in 1941.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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