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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this fire weather watch at Jan 12, 2012, 3:31 PM CST for 16 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 13, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2012, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 13, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2012, 5:06 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 4:17 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 14 hr |
Nearby
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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.