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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 10, 2012Montgomery County, Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2012, 12:19 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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, 2012, 12:19 PM CDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

Counties Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, 10:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 11:20 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:31 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 12:19 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1219 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

ALZ042-044-046-049-101800-
BULLOCK AL-LOWNDES AL-MONTGOMERY AL-PIKE AL-
1219 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN PIKE...MONTGOMERY...
EASTERN LOWNDES AND NORTHWESTERN BULLOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM CDT...

AT 1214 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HAYNEVILLE TO LUVERNE TO 15
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BULLOCK...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  GOSHEN...
  MEADVILLE...
  MONTGOMERY...
  TROY...
  DAVENPORT...

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

&&

LAT...LON 3162 8618 3178 8615 3196 8619 3196 8630
      3204 8631 3205 8639 3196 8641 3196 8653
      3216 8664 3241 8642 3242 8631 3249 8631
      3249 8626 3250 8626 3243 8619 3242 8609
      3216 8596 3172 8592 3161 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 1719Z 216DEG 32KT 3215 8653 3175 8632
          3139 8628

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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, 11:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	29 min
Jun 10, 12:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Montgomery, Pike	48 min
Jun 10, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Bullock	40 min
Jun 10, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee, Macon, Russell	47 min
Jun 10, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	51 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.