Alert archive / Alabama / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2012, 7:13 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 1, 2012, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Chambers County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
736
WWUS84 KBMX 020013
SPSBMX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
713 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012
ALZ038-020100-
CHAMBERS AL-
713 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY UNTIL 800
PM CDT...
AT 710 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR FREDONIA...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STROUD...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
LANETT...
VALLEY...
VEASEY CREEK PARK...
CHAMBERS COUNTY LAKE...
AMITY PARK...
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 3275 8514 3275 8526 3290 8543 3309 8530
3304 8521 3286 8518 3285 8515 3281 8516
3278 8512
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 306DEG 8KT 3296 8527
$$
MAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 2:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 3:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Marion, Winston | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 4:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 80 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.