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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 15, 2008Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2008, 3:00 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 15, 2008, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2008, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bullock County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 6:48 PM CDT, 20 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 6:48 PM CDT, 20 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.