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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 21, 2014Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2014, 3:09 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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 21, 2014, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Barbour County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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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 Jun 21, 11:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 11:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1157 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 2014

.UPDATE...
FORECAST UPDATE AND AVIATION.

&&

.DISCUSSION...

FINALLY STARTING TO GET THE SHOWERS AND STORMS TO DEVELOP THIS
MORNING AND HAVE ADJUSTED PRECIPITATION BASED ON THESE TRENDS.
MODELS CONTINUE TO DIVERGE ON THIS AFTERNOON SO SIDED MORE IN LINE
WITH THE SREF AND HRRR BLEND. OVERALL SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH BEST
CHANCES IN THE NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST. TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN ON
TRACK AND SEE NO CHANGES HERE. UPDATES ARE OUT.

16

&&

.AVIATION...
18Z TAF DISCUSSION.

SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER THE NEXT 6 HOURS POSSIBLE AT ALL SITES.
WILL TRY TO TIME OUT SOME TEMPO TSRA FOR ANB AND MGM BUT WILL JUST
GO VCTS FOR ALL OTHER SITES AS CONVECTION WILL BE SCATTERED AT
BEST. CLOUDS INCREASE OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM BUT SHOULD BE
ON THE HIGHER NATURE SO THERE WILL BE A POSSIBILITY FOR PATCHY FOG
AREA WIDE. MORE STORMS TOMORROW...BUT SHOULD AFFECT MAINLY THE
TCL...MGM...AND TOI.

16

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
GADSDEN     91  68  91  68  89 /  60  20  10  20  50
ANNISTON    91  69  90  69  88 /  50  20  20  20  50
BIRMINGHAM  92  71  91  71  89 /  50  20  20  20  60
TUSCALOOSA  93  71  91  71  90 /  40  20  30  20  60
CALERA      92  71  89  71  89 /  50  20  20  20  60
AUBURN      92  70  89  69  87 /  60  20  20  30  60
MONTGOMERY  95  72  92  72  90 /  50  30  30  30  60
TROY        96  70  92  71  89 /  70  40  30  30  60

&&

.BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:42 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:04 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:09 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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 20, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	49 min
Jun 21, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	46 min
Jun 21, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	22 min
Jun 21, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Bullock	44 min
Jun 21, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	49 min
Jun 21, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	52 min
Jun 21, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	29 min
Jun 21, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	64 min
Jun 21, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	44 min
Jun 21, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	43 min
Jun 21, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	63 min
Jun 21, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	41 min
Jun 21, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	47 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	49 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.