Alert archive / Alabama / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this wind advisory at Jan 26, 2011, 9:30 AM CST for 20 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2011, 9:30 AM CST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2011, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Barbour County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
675 WWUS74 KBMX 261530 NPWBMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CST WED JAN 26 2011 ...GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE EAST TODAY... .PRESSURE GRADIENT WINDS WILL CAUSE WINDS TO GUST TO 30 MPH TODAY BEHIND THIS LATEST SYSTEM. WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO RELAX THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SYSTEM PULLS AWAY FROM ALABAMA. ALZ017>021-026>029-036>038-043>050-262100- /O.NEW.KBMX.WI.Y.0004.110126T1530Z-110126T2100Z/ BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA-CLAY- RANDOLPH-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON- BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ONEONTA...GADSDEN...ANNISTON...CENTRE... HEFLIN...PELL CITY...MOODY...TALLADEGA...SYLACAUGA...ASHLAND... ROANOKE...ROCKFORD...ALEXANDER CITY...DADEVILLE...VALLEY... LANETT...LAFAYETTE...WETUMPKA...TALLASSEE...MONTGOMERY... TUSKEGEE...UNION SPRINGS...AUBURN...OPELIKA...PHENIX CITY... TROY...EUFAULA 930 AM CST WED JAN 26 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 MPH AND HIGHER... OR WIND GUSTS OF 30 MPH AND HIGHER...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 6:10 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 11 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.