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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 14, 20134 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this areal flood warning at Jan 14, 2013, 4:22 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 2013, 4:22 PM CST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2013, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Fayette County, AL, Marion County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 364 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Jan 14, 3:55 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 3:55 PM CST, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 14, 4:17 PM CST, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 14, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
235 PM CST MON JAN 14 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0230 PM     FREEZING RAIN    HALEYVILLE              34.24N 87.62W
01/14/2013  U0.00 INCH       WINSTON            AL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FREEZING RAIN NOW BEING REPORTED IN HALEYVILLE. LIGHT ICE
            ACCUMULATIONS ALSO NOTED ON SOME TREES AND TOPS OF
            VEHICLES.

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TGOGGINS

Local storm report, Jan 14, 3:21 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jan 14, 3:29 PM CST, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 14, 3:38 PM CST, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 14, 4:11 PM CST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
411 PM CST MON JAN 14 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0405 PM     FLOOD            VERNON                  33.76N 88.11W
01/14/2013                   LAMAR              AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY ARE IMPASSABLE DUE TO
            WATER COVERING THE ROAD. ANYWHERE FROM FOUR INCHES TO ONE
            FOOT OF FLOWING WATER REPORTED ACROSS THE ROADWAYS.

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Local storm report, Jan 14, 4:15 PM CST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
415 PM CST MON JAN 14 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0400 PM     FLOOD            3 S FAYETTE             33.65N 87.84W
01/14/2013                   FAYETTE            AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER COVERING THE SOUTHBOUND LANE OF
            AL HWY 171 NEAR CR 64.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 6:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Jan 13, 6:17 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	3 hr
Jan 13, 6:44 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter, Tuscaloosa	2 hr
Jan 13, 7:12 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair, Talladega	2 hr
Jan 13, 7:16 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Shelby	119 min
Jan 13, 7:45 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo	9 days
Jan 14, 2:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Marengo	3 hr
Jan 14, 4:25 AM CST	Flood Watch	BMX	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, Fayette, Jefferson and 7 more	44 hr
Jan 14, 9:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker	3 days
Jan 14, 1:01 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lamar	3 hr
Jan 14, 1:06 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Walker	3 hr
Jan 14, 2:32 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Winston	3 hr
Jan 14, 3:21 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston	18 hr
Jan 14, 3:35 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Lamar	12 hr
Jan 14, 5:46 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Pickens	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.