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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this heat advisory at Jun 13, 2016, 10:42 AM CDT for 9 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2016, 10:42 AM CDT (15:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 13, 6:41 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:41 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 27 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.