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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT for Hale County, Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2007, 6:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 257 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 .SHORT TERM... OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF RAINFALL FROM SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION AND OVER THE WEEKEND CHANCES LOOK EVEN BETTER FOR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL NUDGE INTO NORTHERN ALABAMA SATURDAY IMPEDED BY THE DIRTY RIDGE CURRENTLY OVER THE AREA. PRECIPITABLE WATER WILL INCREASE GRADUALLY SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY...LIKELY EXCEEDING 2 INCHES BY SUNDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT RAINFALL WILL LIKELY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. STEERING FLOW WILL INCREASE A LITTLE...SO UNLIKE OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS...STORMS SHOULD MOVE SPREADING THE WEALTH OVER MORE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WARM...BUT SLIGHTLY COOLER THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING...GENERALLY AROUND 90 DEGREES. CLOUD COVER IS EXPECTED TO BE ABUNDANT. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. LONG RANGE GFS IS RIGHT BACK WITH A DRY PATTERN THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD. YESTERDAYS OFF RUN WHICH HAD THE FRONT STALLING OVER THE AREA IS NO LONG OCCURRING. IT IS BACK TO PUSHING THE FRONT ACROSS THE AREA WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING UP ON TUESDAY. THIS IS BASICALLY THE PATTERN THAT THE GFS HAS BEEN PREDICTING FOR THE MOST PART. THE EUROPEAN MODEL HAS BEEN MORE CONSISTENT WITH A DRY SOLUTION ALSO. THE NAM...WHICH IS BARELY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE DURING THIS TIME PERIOD KEEPS THE FRONT TO OUR NORTH. DGEX ALSO REFLECTS THIS SOLUTION OF KEEPING THE MOISTURE AROUND. LEANING WITH THE GFS/ECMWF AS THEY HAVE A BETTER TRACK RECORD IN THE LONG RANGE. HAVING SAID THAT...LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN HOT DURING THE PERIOD. WENT A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN MOS...ESPECIALLY FOR DAYTIME TEMPS. ALSO REMOVED THE SMALL POPS THAT WE HAD DURING THE PERIOD. UNFORTUNATELY...THIS PATTERN DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR OUR DROUGHT CONDITIONS. 10/ARM && .AVIATION...18Z TAF DISCUSSION. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED AGAIN THROUGH MAINLY 02Z. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND GENERALLY WILL NOT LAST AT ANY ONE LOCATION FOR MORE THAN ONE HOUR...BUT MAY OCCUR MORE THAN ONCE AT ANY GIVEN LOCATION. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT THIS POINT...MENTIONED ONLY VCTS FOR THE TERMINALS WITH LACK OF CONFIDENCE ON TIMING AND DURATION. EXPECT VFR CEILINGS THE ENTIRE PERIOD. BRIEF MVFR VIS POSSIBLE TOWARD DAYBREAK BUT WILL BE SHORT LIVED. WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD...KEPT WIND VRB05KT. && && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 69 90 69 89 65 / 40 50 30 40 20 ANNISTON 70 92 70 89 65 / 40 40 30 40 20 BIRMINGHAM 70 91 70 89 67 / 40 50 30 40 20 TUSCALOOSA 71 93 71 91 69 / 30 50 30 40 30 CALERA 71 92 71 91 68 / 30 50 30 40 20 AUBURN 71 92 71 91 70 / 30 40 30 40 30 MONTGOMERY 72 94 71 92 70 / 30 40 30 50 30 TROY 71 93 71 93 70 / 30 40 30 50 40 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. && 07/07/07
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 1:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 102 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 ALZ011>015-017>050-301130- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 102 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL: BIRMINGHAM...MODERATE. MONTGOMERY...MODERATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
539 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM TSTM WND DMG W ONEONTA 33.95N 86.47W
06/29/2007 BLOUNT AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
LOCUST FORK AREA, TREES DOWN IN CLEVELAND AND LOCUST FORK
AREAS. CORRECTED
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MBAERSpecial weather statement, Jun 29, 5:39 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 539 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 ALZ032-039-292315- HALE-MARENGO- 539 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR MARENGO AND HALE COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 539 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF OLD SPRING HILL...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING BY SEEKING SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL ENCLOSED BUILDING OR A METAL AUTOMOBILE. IF YOU ARE ON THE WATER AND YOUR BOAT HAS A CABIN...USE THE CABIN FOR A LIGHTNING SHELTER. OTHERWISE...BOATERS SHOULD HEAD TO SHORE AND SEEK SHELTER THERE. AVOID ELECTRICAL DEVICES AND OTHER OBJECTS WHICH CAN CONDUCT LIGHTNING. WAIT AT LEAST 30 MINUTES AFTER THE LAST RUMBLE OF THUNDER BEFORE RESUMING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS SMALL HAIL. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...DIME SIZE...IS POSSIBLE. TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOURSELF BY SEEKING SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL ENCLOSED BUILDING. IF OUTDOORS AND A SUBSTANTIAL ENCLOSED BUILDING IS NOT AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN AUTOMOBILE. OTHER LIKELY THREAT ARE STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. IF WEATHER PERMITS...SECURE LOOSE ARTICLES BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. 27/SWU
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 36 min |
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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.