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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 26, 2012Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 26, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 26, 6:58 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:58 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 7:35 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 7:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	44 min
Jul 27, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	34 min
Jul 27, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	36 min
Jul 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	32 min
Jul 27, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	26 min
Jul 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	23 min
Jul 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	27 min
Jul 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	35 min
Jul 27, 4:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount	58 min
Jul 27, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	37 min
Jul 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	32 min
Jul 27, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	28 min
Jul 27, 4:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Blount	2 hr
Jul 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	St. Clair	2 hr
Jul 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	29 min
Jul 27, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Cherokee	118 min
Jul 27, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	40 min
Jul 27, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	37 min
Jul 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Marion	116 min
Jul 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	26 min
Jul 27, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	35 min
Jul 27, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	45 min
Jul 27, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	33 min

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.