Alert archive / Alabama / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Sep 5, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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
- Sep 5, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Calhoun County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 146 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
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 1:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 36 min |
| Sep 5, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 38 min |
| Sep 5, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 3:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 24 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2015Every 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.