Alert archive / Alabama / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this wind advisory at Feb 21, 2015, 12:39 PM CST for 26 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2015, 12:39 PM CST (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2015, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
All 26 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 733 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 904 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
484 WWUS74 KBMX 211839 NPWBMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1239 PM CST SAT FEB 21 2015 ...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING 35 MPH AT TIMES. ALZ011>015-017-022>027-030>036-039>044-049-220100- /O.NEW.KBMX.WI.Y.0004.150221T1839Z-150222T0100Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA- JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY- BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAMILTON...SULLIGENT...VERNON... FAYETTE...DOUBLE SPRINGS...JASPER...ONEONTA...CARROLLTON... TUSCALOOSA...BIRMINGHAM...HOOVER...COLUMBIANA...PELHAM... ALABASTER...PELL CITY...MOODY...TALLADEGA...SYLACAUGA... LIVINGSTON...EUTAW...GREENSBORO...MOUNDVILLE...MARION... CENTREVILLE...CLANTON...ROCKFORD...DEMOPOLIS...LINDEN...SELMA... PRATTVILLE...FORT DEPOSIT...HAYNEVILLE...WETUMPKA...TALLASSEE... MONTGOMERY...TROY 1239 PM CST SAT FEB 21 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...OF THE STRONG WINDS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 7PM THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SUSTAINED BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS INTO THE 30 TO 35 MPH RANGE. * IMPACTS...INCLUDE DIFFICULTY DRIVING IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND SMALL TREE LIMBS MAY BE BROKEN OR SNAPPED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 24 MPH AND HIGHER... OR WIND GUSTS OF 36 MPH AND HIGHER...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
Nearby
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.