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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 16, 2011Lee County, Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2011, 11:19 AM CDT for Lee County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2011, 11:19 AM CDT (16:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lee County, AL, Russell County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 11:28 AM CDT	HAIL 0.5	Beauregard, AL
Jun 16, 11:29 AM CDT	HAIL 1	2 Ne Beauregard, AL	DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL ALONG MOORES MILL ROAD.
Jun 16, 11:30 AM CDT	HAIL 0.25	Opelika, AL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

343 
WUUS54 KBMX 161619
SVRBMX
ALC081-113-161700-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0290.110616T1619Z-110616T1700Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1119 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  NORTH CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL NOON CDT

* AT 1120 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
  WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  BEAUREGARD...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUBURN...AND MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SMITHS...BEAUREGARD...GRIFFEN MILL...BLEECKER...SMITHS STATION...
  LADONIA...MARVYN AND CRAWFORD.

THIS INCLUDES...
INTERSTATE 85 EXIT NUMBERS 57 THROUGH 62...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

&&

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3235 8512 3245 8544 3250 8544 3250 8549
      3251 8551 3267 8546 3260 8507 3257 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 285DEG 11KT 3254 8538

$$

75

1 follow-up statement

848 
WWUS54 KBMX 161645
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1145 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

ALC081-113-161700-
/O.CON.KBMX.SV.W.0290.000000T0000Z-110616T1700Z/
LEE AL-RUSSELL AL-
1145 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
RUSSELL AND SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTIES UNTIL NOON CDT...

AT 1140 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
GRIFFEN MILL...OR 9 MILES WEST OF SMITHS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SMITHS...BLEECKER...SMITHS STATION...LADONIA...CRAWFORD...
  PARKMANVILLE AND MONTEREY HEIGHTS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3235 8512 3243 8536 3265 8534 3260 8507
      3257 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 1645Z 285DEG 20KT 3250 8520

$$

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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, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion, Winston	47 min
Jun 15, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	26 min
Jun 15, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	50 min
Jun 15, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne	46 min
Jun 15, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	DeKalb	37 min
Jun 15, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	36 min
Jun 15, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne	32 min
Jun 15, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	29 min
Jun 15, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	46 min
Jun 15, 10:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	40 min
Jun 15, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	46 min
Jun 15, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	47 min
Jun 16, 8:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	46 min
Jun 16, 9:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	48 min
Jun 16, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	38 min
Jun 16, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	43 min
Jun 16, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	49 min
Jun 16, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	47 min
Jun 16, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	50 min
Jun 16, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Choctaw	35 min
Jun 16, 1:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	38 min
Jun 16, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo, Sumter	48 min
Jun 16, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	48 min
Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.