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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 27, 2011Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 27, 2011, 6:13 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 27, 2011, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

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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: 1069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 27, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 3:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 1:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 27, 2:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 27, 2:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 27, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 27, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 27, 6:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	37 min
Mar 26, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	41 min
Mar 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	28 min
Mar 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	36 min
Mar 26, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Walker	55 min
Mar 26, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	24 min
Mar 26, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	62 min
Mar 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	60 min
Mar 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Calhoun, Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega	25 min
Mar 26, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah	47 min
Mar 26, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	59 min
Mar 26, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Walker, Winston	46 min
Mar 26, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, Talladega	48 min
Mar 26, 10:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	3 hr
Mar 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Jefferson, Walker	63 min
Mar 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay, St. Clair, Talladega	15 min
Mar 26, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	45 min
Mar 26, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Tuscaloosa	56 min
Mar 26, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, St. Clair, Talladega	45 min
Mar 26, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	36 min
Mar 26, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Randolph	41 min
Mar 26, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker	16 min
Mar 27, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	15 min
Mar 27, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	44 min
Mar 27, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Randolph	67 min
Mar 27, 1:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	17 min
Mar 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa	52 min
Mar 27, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers, Tallapoosa	48 min
Mar 27, 1:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	22 min
Mar 27, 1:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers, Tallapoosa	13 min
Mar 27, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	51 min
Mar 27, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	45 min
Mar 27, 4:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	49 min
Mar 27, 6:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	44 min
Mar 27, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa	49 min
Mar 27, 7:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Tuscaloosa	44 min
Mar 27, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	49 min
Mar 27, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Coosa	48 min
Mar 27, 7:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Hale	50 min
Mar 27, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	47 min
Mar 27, 8:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	43 min
Mar 27, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	45 min
Mar 27, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore	28 min
Mar 27, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	33 min
Mar 27, 10:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	50 min
Mar 27, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	43 min
Mar 27, 11:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	23 min
Mar 27, 11:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	49 min
Mar 27, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	40 min
Mar 27, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	48 min
Mar 27, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.