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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 23, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Barbour County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS84 KBMX 232103
SPSBMX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
403 PM CDT SAT MAR 23 2013
ALZ050-232145-
BARBOUR AL-
403 PM CDT SAT MAR 23 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL BARBOUR COUNTY UNTIL 445
PM CDT...
AT 358 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF BANKS...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
BRUNDIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
EUFAULA...
BOOT HILL...
LOUISVILLE...
CLAYTON...
BARBOUR COUNTY PUBLIC LAKE DAM...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3200 8506 3197 8506 3189 8513 3178 8513
3175 8569 3178 8566 3180 8567 3186 8567
3192 8564 3207 8510 3206 8505 3201 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 260DEG 44KT 3181 8567
$$
61The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 5:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 5:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 6:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby | 58 min |
| Mar 23, 6:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | St. Clair | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 7:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 65 min |
| Mar 23, 7:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 39 min |
| Mar 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 52 min |
| Mar 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 62 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.