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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 20, 20155 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2015, 2:39 PM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 36 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: May 20, 2015, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2015, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

Counties Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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
May 20, 4:53 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa and 9 more	4 hr
May 20, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Perry, Tuscaloosa	62 min
May 20, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas	63 min
May 20, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery	59 min
May 20, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar, Marion	61 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.