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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 22, 2006Chambers County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2006, 3:29 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2006, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chambers County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 222029
SVRBMX
ALC017-222100-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0252.060622T2029Z-060622T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
329 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 329 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND    
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10      
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE BY 400 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3287 8558 3290 8556 3294 8555 3295 8554
      3286 8533 3284 8533 3278 8537 3275 8542
      3275 8559

$$

JONES/90

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 222051
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
351 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006

ALC017-222101-
/O.EXP.KBMX.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-060622T2100Z/
CHAMBERS AL-
351 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 400 PM CDT...

AT 351 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO
LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3287 8558 3290 8556 3294 8555 3295 8554
      3286 8533 3284 8533 3278 8537 3275 8542
      3275 8559

$$

JONES/90

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	27 min
Jun 22, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	31 min
Jun 22, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	28 min
Jun 22, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	51 min
Jun 22, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	37 min
Jun 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	31 min
Jun 22, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	29 min
Jun 22, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne	35 min
Jun 22, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	28 min
Jun 22, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Montgomery, Pike	13 min
Jun 22, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.