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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 10, 2011Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2011, 9:40 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 10, 2011, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2011, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 10, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 8:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 7:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:40 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
Jun 10, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	25 min
Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	25 min
Jun 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	23 min
Jun 10, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	30 min
Jun 10, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dale	27 min
Jun 10, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	41 min
Jun 11, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	51 min
Jun 11, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	30 min
Jun 11, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	42 min
Jun 11, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	47 min
Jun 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	29 min
Jun 11, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	40 min
Jun 11, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair	43 min
Jun 11, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	37 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	26 min
Jun 11, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	39 min
Jun 11, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	29 min
Jun 11, 3:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	117 min
Jun 11, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	47 min
Jun 11, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega	42 min
Jun 11, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	51 min
Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	48 min
Jun 11, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	35 min
Jun 11, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega	46 min
Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	47 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	27 min
Jun 11, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay, Randolph, Talladega	51 min
Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	49 min
Jun 11, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	30 min
Jun 11, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	23 min
Jun 11, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	44 min
Jun 11, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	50 min
Jun 11, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	36 min
Jun 11, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	45 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.