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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2009, 8:43 AM CDT for Barbour County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 5, 2009, 8:43 AM CDT (13:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2009, 9:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barbour County, AL, Russell County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 Apr 5, 6:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 6:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 5, 5:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 508 AM CDT SUN APR 5 2009 ALZ032-033-039-040-051100- DALLAS-HALE-MARENGO-PERRY- 508 AM CDT SUN APR 5 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DALLAS...HALE...MARENGO AND PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM CDT... AT 506 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DAYTON...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINDEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... DAYTON. FAUNSDALE. UNIONTOWN. MARION JUNCTION. HAMBURG. SUTTLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 27
Local storm report, Apr 5, 7:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 28 min |
| Apr 5, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 47 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.