Alert archive / Alabama / Wind Advisories in 2010
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this wind advisory at Jan 25, 2010, 4:25 AM CST for 39 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 25, 2010, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2010, 4:25 AM CST (10:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2010, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2010, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
All 39 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
897 WWUS74 KBMX 251025 NPWBMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 425 AM CST MON JAN 25 2010 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... ALZ011>015-017>050-251830- /O.NEW.KBMX.WI.Y.0002.100125T1400Z-100125T2300Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN- CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR- TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON- COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAMILTON...SULLIGENT...VERNON... FAYETTE...DOUBLE SPRINGS...JASPER...ONEONTA...GADSDEN... ANNISTON...CENTRE...HEFLIN...CARROLLTON...TUSCALOOSA... BIRMINGHAM...HOOVER...COLUMBIANA...PELHAM...ALABASTER... PELL CITY...MOODY...TALLADEGA...SYLACAUGA...ASHLAND...ROANOKE... LIVINGSTON...EUTAW...GREENSBORO...MOUNDVILLE...MARION... CENTREVILLE...CLANTON...ROCKFORD...ALEXANDER CITY...DADEVILLE... VALLEY...LANETT...LAFAYETTE...DEMOPOLIS...LINDEN...SELMA... PRATTVILLE...FORT DEPOSIT...HAYNEVILLE...WETUMPKA...TALLASSEE... MONTGOMERY...TUSKEGEE...UNION SPRINGS...AUBURN...OPELIKA... PHENIX CITY...TROY...EUFAULA 425 AM CST MON JAN 25 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP RATHER QUICKLY THIS MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. WESTERLY WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS APPROACHING 35 MPH. THE WIND GUSTS WILL SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE WINDS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG NORTH OR SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS. BOATERS IN THE WIND ADVISORY AREA SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION IF VENTURING ONTO AREA LAKES TODAY. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE OPEN WATERS OF LAKES ROUGH AND HAZARDOUS...AND MAY RESULT IN HIGH WAVES WHICH MAY TIP OR SWAMP SMALLER CRAFT. FOR YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY...AVOID THE OPEN WATERS. STAY CLOSE TO SHORE OR AROUND PROTECTED AREAS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
776 WWUS74 KBMX 251800 NPWBMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1200 PM CST MON JAN 25 2010 ...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... ALZ011>015-017>050-252300- /O.CON.KBMX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-100125T2300Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN- CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR- TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON- COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAMILTON...SULLIGENT...VERNON... FAYETTE...DOUBLE SPRINGS...JASPER...ONEONTA...GADSDEN... ANNISTON...CENTRE...HEFLIN...CARROLLTON...TUSCALOOSA... BIRMINGHAM...HOOVER...COLUMBIANA...PELHAM...ALABASTER... PELL CITY...MOODY...TALLADEGA...SYLACAUGA...ASHLAND...ROANOKE... LIVINGSTON...EUTAW...GREENSBORO...MOUNDVILLE...MARION... CENTREVILLE...CLANTON...ROCKFORD...ALEXANDER CITY...DADEVILLE... VALLEY...LANETT...LAFAYETTE...DEMOPOLIS...LINDEN...SELMA... PRATTVILLE...FORT DEPOSIT...HAYNEVILLE...WETUMPKA...TALLASSEE... MONTGOMERY...TUSKEGEE...UNION SPRINGS...AUBURN...OPELIKA... PHENIX CITY...TROY...EUFAULA 1200 PM CST MON JAN 25 2010 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. WESTERLY WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS APPROACHING 35 MPH. THE WIND GUSTS WILL SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE WINDS... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING ALONG NORTH OR SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS. BOATERS IN THE WIND ADVISORY AREA SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION IF VENTURING ONTO AREA LAKES TODAY. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE OPEN WATERS OF LAKES ROUGH AND HAZARDOUS...AND MAY RESULT IN HIGH WAVES WHICH MAY TIP OR SWAMP SMALLER CRAFT. FOR YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY...AVOID THE OPEN WATERS. STAY CLOSE TO SHORE OR AROUND PROTECTED AREAS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 12:35 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Elmore, Macon, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 9 hr |
| Jan 25, 6:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 4 days |
| Jan 25, 10:10 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 72 hr |
| Jan 25, 1:24 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 43 hr |
Nearby
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.