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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2011, 2:08 PM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Jul 5, 2011, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2011, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS84 KBMX 051908
SPSBMX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
208 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2011
ALZ030-051945-
SUMTER AL-
208 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN SUMTER COUNTY UNTIL
245 PM CDT...
AT 208 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR KINTERBISH...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUBA. THIS
STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CUBA...
KINTERBISH...
WARD...
WHITFIELD...
I 20 WELCOME CENTER AT CUBA...
&&
LAT...LON 3245 8841 3245 8807 3240 8804 3237 8805
3237 8803 3231 8800 3230 8832 3230 8842
3231 8843 3234 8843
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 179DEG 2KT 3234 8823
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 2:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas, Hale, Perry | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 38 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.