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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 428, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2009, 6:56 AM CDT for Pickens County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 26, 2009, 6:56 AM CDT (11:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2009, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pickens County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Sep 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 26, 5:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 536 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 2009 ALZ022-261100- PICKENS- 536 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR PICKENS COUNTY UNTIL 600 AM CDT... AT 534 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEMPHIS...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALICEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... MEMPHIS. GEORGE DOWNER AIRPORT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 17/KLAWS
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 6:23 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 623 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 2009 ALZ022-023-261215- PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA- 623 AM CDT SAT SEP 26 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR PICKENS AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 715 AM CDT... AT 622 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALICEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... DILLBURG. CARROLLTON. PIONEER. GORDO. ELROD. ECHOLA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 17/KLAWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 26, 4:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BMX | Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 24 more | 16 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 21 min |
| Sep 26, 9:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Walker | 115 min |
| Sep 26, 10:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette | 118 min |
| Sep 26, 11:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Walker | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Shelby | 118 min |
| Sep 26, 1:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 78 min |
| Sep 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Clay | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.