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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 7, 2015Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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 7, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2015, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Bullock County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.3

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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 Aug 7, 12:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1248 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

.UPDATE...
FOR 18Z AVIATION.

&&

.DISCUSSION...

FOR THE MORNING UPDATE...INTRODUCED A GREATER RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF CENTRAL ALABAMA.
CURRENTLY...STORM RELATIVE HELICITIES ARE RATHER HIGH IN THE
150-250 RANGE. THIS IS IN THE REALM OF TORNADO GENESIS...BUT ALL
MODEL OUTPUT SUGGEST THESE HELICITY VALUES GO DOWN ALL DAY AND
WILL NOT BE SUFFICIENT WITHIN A FEW HOURS. THE LATEST VISIBLE
SATELLITE IMAGERY HAS A DISTINCT THERMAL BOUNDARY DEVELOPING WITH
LOW STATUS FROM HAMILTON TO AUBURN. AREAS SOUTHWEST OF THIS LINE
WILL HEAT UP RATHER QUICKLY UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS.

SBCAPE VALUES ARE FORECAST TO JUMP INTO THE 4-5K RANGE BY EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY BE A BIT HIGH...BUT NONETHELESS WILL BE
RATHER HIGH. LIS...SHOWALTER ALSO HINT AT MODERATE INSTABILITY.
BULK SHEAR VALUES ARE ALSO A BIT HIGH FOR AUGUST IN THE 35 KT
RANGE.

THEREFORE...DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR AREAS NEAR
AND SOUTHWEST OF THIS BOUNDARY. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY FROM
VERNON TO HOOVER TO AUBURN. AN ORGANIZED AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
LOCATED NEAR MEMPHIS THIS MORNING AND PRODUCING WIND GUSTS
GENERALLY JUST BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA...BUT COULD STILL KNOCK TREES
DOWN AND CAUSE DAMAGE. AS INSTABILITY INCREASES OVER CENTRAL
ALABAMA...THESE STORMS MAY INCREASE IN INTENSITY. ADDITIONALLY...A
FEW WAVES ARE RIDING OVER HEAD INTO THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROUGH.
THEREFORE...SOME UPWARD MOTION MAY ACTUALLY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL
STORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THIS AXIS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS
NORTHEAST. THE MAIN TIMING WILL BE FROM 11 AM THROUGH 7 PM BUT MAY
NEED TO BE ADJUSTED AS THE DEVELOMENT IS MONITORED. STAY TUNED.

75

&&

.AVIATION...
18Z TAF DISCUSSION.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS
AFTERNOON. IT APPEASR THE HIGHEST THREAT AT ANY TERMINAL IS
TCL...BUT ADDED VCTS FOR BHM/EET/MGM/TOI AFTER 20Z. A DIFFERENTIAL
HEATING BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST OVER CENTRAL
ALABAMA. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL RIDE NEAR THIS INTERFACE AND
CREATED SOME CONVECTION AND CLOUDS.

MOST TERMINALS WILL EXPERIENCE SOME VFR CEILINGS...BUT ADDED MVFR
TEMPO TO TCL THIS AFTERNOON.

CLOUDS AND STORMS DISSIPATE THIS EVENING. SOME MODEL OUTPUT
INDICATES ANOTHER UPPER DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH. AT THIS
TIME...WILL END CONVECTION BUT WILL MONITOR DEVELOPMENT CLOSELY
THIS AFTERNOON UPSTREAM. SOME PATCHY FOG MAY DEVELOP AFTER
MIDNIGHT BUT WILL ADDRESS IN LATER FORECAST.

75

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
ONCE AGAIN MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK INTO THE AREA AS WE
MOVE INTO THE WEEKEND...TAKING RAIN CHANCES BACK DOWN TO MORE
SEASONABLE LEVELS...AND ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB BACK ABOVE
NORMAL.

08

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
GADSDEN     70  92  71  96  74 /  10  10  10  10  10
ANNISTON    70  92  72  94  74 /  10  10  10  10  10
BIRMINGHAM  73  93  74  97  77 /  20  10  10  10  10
TUSCALOOSA  74  96  75 100  76 /  30  20  10  10  10
CALERA      73  93  74  97  76 /  20  10  10  10  10
AUBURN      73  93  75  95  76 /  20  10  10  10  10
MONTGOMERY  75  96  76  99  77 /  30  20  10  10  10
TROY        74  95  75  97  76 /  30  20  10  10  10

&&

.BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR AUTAUGA-DALLAS-
LOWNDES-MONTGOMERY.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 1:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
131 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

ALZ011>015-017>050-082145-
MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE-
CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA-
CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-
CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON-
BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR-
131 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN HALF
OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. THIS AREA WILL GENERALLY BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF
A LINE FROM TUSCALOOSA TO HOOVER TO AUBURN...THROUGH 7 PM. THESE
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH.

THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO MAXIMUM HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO
109 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHWEST CENTRAL ALABAMA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY COULD LEAD TO HEAT INDICES NEAR OR ABOVE
105 DEGREES SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
ALABAMA...ESPECIALLY THE SOUTH AND WEST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BECOME
NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
142 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

ALZ039-071930-
MARENGO AL-
142 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY UNTIL 230
PM CDT...

AT 141 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR CATHERINE TO NEAR
MAGNOLIA TO NEAR MILLER TO NEAR NANAFALIA...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 35
MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THOMASTON...SWEET WATER...NANAFALIA...DIXONS MILL...MAGNOLIA...
SURGINER...WAYNE...VINELAND...CONSUL...SHAWNEE...MILLER...PUTNAM...
OCTAGON...NICHOLSVILLE AND CLAYHILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3206 8807 3208 8804 3214 8804 3216 8801
      3220 8778 3231 8752 3231 8747 3227 8747
      3227 8751 3225 8752 3213 8752 3213 8762
      3200 8763 3200 8767 3199 8767 3199 8807
      3200 8809 3207 8810
TIME...MOT...LOC 1841Z 347DEG 29KT 3222 8750 3218 8764 3213 8776 3207
8794

05/MA

Local storm report, Aug 7, 2:10 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
210 PM CDT FRI AUG 07 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0112 PM     TSTM WND DMG     COATOPA                 32.49N 88.07W
08/07/2015                   SUMTER             AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 28 AT COATOPA.

&&

LINHARES

Local storm report, Aug 7, 2:14 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
214 PM CDT FRI AUG 07 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1249 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NW LIVINGSTON         32.62N 88.21W
08/07/2015                   SUMTER             AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            A FEW TREES WERE BLWON DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 28 NORTHWEST OF
            LIVINGSTON. ONE TREE WAS BLOCKING THE ROADWAY.

&&

LINHARES

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:24 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
224 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

ALZ049-072000-
PIKE AL-
224 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY UNTIL
300 PM CDT...

AT 224 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GOSHEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TROY...GOSHEN...TENNILLE...TARENTUM...HENDERSON AND HAMILTON
CROSSROADS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3163 8617 3165 8616 3166 8616 3166 8615
      3169 8614 3179 8607 3164 8574 3163 8573
      3162 8575 3162 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 303DEG 30KT 3168 8606

05/MA

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
238 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

ALZ048-072015-
RUSSELL AL-
238 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY UNTIL 315
PM CDT...

AT 238 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
SEALE...OR 15 MILES EAST OF HURTSBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SEALE...RUSSELL COUNTY SPORTS COMPLEX...FORT MITCHELL ACTIVITY CENTER
AND UCHEE CREEK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3226 8490 3225 8491 3225 8492 3222 8493
      3222 8497 3221 8498 3220 8496 3218 8501
      3213 8506 3209 8505 3220 8527 3237 8518
      3230 8494 3226 8489
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 293DEG 27KT 3226 8515

05/MA

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
252 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

ALZ045-046-072030-
MACON AL-BULLOCK AL-
252 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN BULLOCK AND SOUTH CENTRAL
MACON COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT...

AT 251 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
UNION SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
UNION SPRINGS...MIDWAY...ABERFOIL...PICKETT...SEDGEFIELD...FORT DAVIS
AND THREE NOTCH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3191 8568 3224 8577 3231 8557 3208 8543
      3202 8543 3201 8546 3202 8547 3201 8547
      3201 8551 3200 8551 3200 8559 3196 8561
      3192 8564
TIME...MOT...LOC 1951Z 339DEG 20KT 3221 8564

05/MA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Russell	41 min
Aug 6, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	38 min
Aug 6, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa	64 min
Aug 6, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	26 min
Aug 6, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Montgomery	54 min
Aug 6, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery	2 hr
Aug 6, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	33 min
Aug 6, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	56 min
Aug 6, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	62 min
Aug 6, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	28 min
Aug 6, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	36 min
Aug 7, 1:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Lee	52 min
Aug 7, 5:52 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo and 5 more	12 hr
Aug 7, 12:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	43 min
Aug 7, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	37 min
Aug 7, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	28 min
Aug 7, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	48 min
Aug 7, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	36 min
Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	37 min
Aug 7, 3:27 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chambers and 28 more	3 days
Aug 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	61 min
Aug 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	38 min
Aug 7, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	32 min

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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.