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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Feb 12, 2013, 1:25 PM CST for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Feb 12, 2013, 1:25 PM CST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2013, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Greene County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 12, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1255 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2013 ALZ011>015-017>050-131900- 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- 1255 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SMALL TORNADO THREAT HAS DEVELOPED FOR PIKE AND BARBOUR COUNTIES. THIS THREAT WILL GENERALLY BE BETWEEN 6 PM THIS EVENING UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A SMALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT HAS ALSO DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE...TO ROCKFORD...TO CENTREVILLE...TO EUTAW. DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH PERSISTENT SHOWERS AND STORMS COULD LEAD TO SOME LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD AND AREAL FLOOD CONCERNS. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN WILL GENERALLY BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM REFORM...TO BIRMINGHAM...TO JACKSONVILLE. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN SPOTS...WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY BE POSSIBLE NORTH OF THIS LINE...BUT IF ANY FLOODING DEVELOPS...IT WILL BE VERY BRIEF AND MINOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS...COMBINED WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED TODAY...WILL LEAD TO RISES ALONG AREA RIVERS. SOME MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG PORTIONS OF THE LOWER TOMBIGBEE...LOWER BLACK WARRIOR...LOWER CAHABA AND ALABAMA RIVERS. ANY RIVER FLOODING THAT DOES OCCUR COULD PERSIST THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK AND PERHAPS EVEN INTO THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BE NEEDED DUE TO FLOODING AND SEVERE THREAT THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 12, 8:50 AM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Feb 12, 1:25 PM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
125 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2013
ALZ022-030-031-122000-
GREENE AL-PICKENS AL-SUMTER AL-
125 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN SUMTER...SOUTHERN
PICKENS AND GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CST...
AT 118 PM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF PANOLA TO
BOYD...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
ALICEVILLE...
EUTAW...
NEW WEST GREENE...
GAINESVILLE...
EPES...
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 3308 8833 3326 8784 3302 8784 3302 8771
3299 8771 3298 8775 3294 8773 3293 8778
3291 8776 3290 8780 3286 8783 3281 8782
3255 8840
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 240DEG 63KT 3302 8827 3290 8821
3269 8827
56The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 7:18 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 5 days |
| Feb 12, 8:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 40 min |
| Feb 12, 9:33 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:10 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:39 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Marengo, Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bullock, Dallas, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:13 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:31 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 5 days |
| Feb 12, 3:41 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.