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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 30, 2014Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2014, 3:16 PM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 30, 2014, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 274 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: 549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 30, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Sumter	42 min
Aug 30, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Pickens	50 min
Aug 30, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas, Perry	53 min
Aug 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	32 min
Aug 30, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Chilton	39 min
Aug 30, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	51 min
Aug 30, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Shelby	47 min
Aug 30, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	43 min
Aug 30, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega	44 min
Aug 30, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	41 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.