Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2011, 9:46 AM CST for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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
- Mar 9, 2011, 9:46 AM CST (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pike County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 10:10 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Wnw Tarentum, AL | SPORADIC WIND DAMAGE FROM NEAR SPRING HILL TO NEAR HAMILTON CROSSROADS. SEVERAL TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN, POWER LINES WERE DOWN, AND SOME MINOR STRUCTURE DAMAGE OCCURRED IN THESE AREAS. |
| Mar 9, 10:21 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Hamilton Crossroads, AL | TREES AND POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN ON THE PIKE/DALE COUNTY LINES. POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 743 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
133
WUUS54 KBMX 091546
SVRBMX
ALC109-091615-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0039.110309T1546Z-110309T1615Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
946 AM CST WED MAR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1015 AM CST
* AT 941 AM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOSHEN...AND
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BRUNDIDGE...TROY UNIVERSITY...ANTIOCH...BANKS...MOSSY GROVE...
TARENTUM...HAMILTON CROSSROADS AND BRUNDIDGE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.
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 3176 8612 3187 8569 3177 8567 3174 8570
3168 8572 3163 8574 3163 8611
TIME...MOT...LOC 1546Z 259DEG 33KT 3169 8599
$$
14The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 7:06 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:42 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 4 days |
| Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 36 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Dallas, Perry | 61 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:33 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 9 days |
| Mar 8, 10:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 8 days |
| Mar 8, 11:21 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 50 min |
| Mar 9, 1:02 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Jefferson, Marion, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 1:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 2:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Perry | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 3:32 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:56 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb, Blount, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 4:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb, Hale, Jefferson, Perry, Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 5:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Dallas, Jefferson, Perry and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 16 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Blount, Calhoun, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas and 5 more | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair, Shelby and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery, Talladega and 1 more | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 6:53 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery, Talladega and 1 more | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 7:38 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pike and 1 more | 67 min |
| Mar 9, 8:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 24 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:34 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell | 56 min |
| Mar 9, 8:53 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Talladega | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 9:25 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 59 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:00 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 12 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 10:40 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 10:59 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Tuscaloosa | 33 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:59 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter, Tuscaloosa | 68 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:04 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Talladega | 45 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 4:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 4:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 4:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 4:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 4:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 5:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 5:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 5:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 5:36 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 5:46 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 44 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.