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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this fire weather watch at Nov 17, 2014, 3:59 AM CST for 13 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Nov 18, 2014, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 2014, 3:59 AM CST (09:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 18, 2014, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2014, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Nov 17, 2:28 AM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 2:28 AM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 9:48 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:58 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:59 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 21 more | 60 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 35 min |
| Nov 17, 5:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 24 min |
| Nov 17, 5:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Russell | 22 min |
| Nov 17, 6:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 27 min |
| Nov 17, 9:26 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 12 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.