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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 28, 2011Marshall County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2011, 3:21 AM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2011, 3:21 AM CDT (08:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Marshall County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

555 
WWUS84 KBMX 280821
SPSBMX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
321 AM CDT MON MAR 28 2011

ALZ017-018-280900-
BLOUNT AL-ETOWAH AL-
321 AM CDT MON MAR 28 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN BLOUNT AND NORTHERN
ETOWAH COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM CDT...

AT 319 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STRAWBERRY...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF
BLOUNTSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  STRAWBERRY...
  BROOKSVILLE...
  SUSAN MOORE...
  MCLARTY...
  SNEAD...


&&

LAT...LON 3411 8630 3420 8618 3421 8609 3421 8585
      3413 8584 3414 8580 3407 8578 3409 8667
      3414 8663 3413 8660 3419 8656 3422 8656
      3426 8652 3427 8645
TIME...MOT...LOC 0821Z 270DEG 50KT 3420 8656

$$

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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 27, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	42 min
Mar 27, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	43 min
Mar 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	39 min
Mar 27, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	40 min
Mar 27, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker, Winston	41 min
Mar 27, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	47 min
Mar 27, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	30 min
Mar 27, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	45 min
Mar 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Tallapoosa	44 min
Mar 27, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon, Russell	39 min
Mar 27, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	47 min
Mar 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Russell	29 min
Mar 27, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	47 min
Mar 27, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	45 min
Mar 27, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	47 min
Mar 28, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	42 min
Mar 28, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	44 min
Mar 28, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion, Winston	40 min
Mar 28, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	48 min
Mar 28, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	47 min
Mar 28, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	43 min
Mar 28, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	47 min
Mar 28, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	28 min
Mar 28, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount, Etowah	44 min
Mar 28, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	40 min
Mar 28, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	50 min
Mar 28, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	31 min
Mar 28, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	14 min
Mar 28, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	43 min
Mar 28, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair	44 min
Mar 28, 3:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	51 min
Mar 28, 3:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.