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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 2:35 PM CDT for Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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 7, 2012, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2012, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Winston County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jul 6, 6:48 PM CDT, 19 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 6:48 PM CDT, 19 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 5:37 PM CDT, 20 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 537 PM CDT FRI JUL 6 2012 ALZ011>015-017>050-072245- MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE- CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA- CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA- CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON- BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 537 PM CDT FRI JUL 6 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE GENERALLY NEAR AND WEST OF A LINE FROM SELMA TO CENTREVILLE TO BRILLIANT. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE ACTIVITY SHOULD LOSE INTENSITY AND COVERAGE BY 10 PM. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BE NEEDED INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 6, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Randolph | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 10:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 10:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 71 min |
| Jul 6, 11:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 80 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.