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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 10, 2013Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2013, 2:25 AM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 10, 2013, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2013, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	51 min
Jun 10, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	28 min
Jun 10, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	45 min
Jun 10, 12:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lee, Macon, Russell	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.