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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2016, 6:33 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2016, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Marengo County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ese Putnam, AL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 538 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
432
WUUS54 KBMX 312333
SVRBMX
ALC091-010030-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0019.160331T2333Z-160401T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
633 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 632 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PUTNAM...OR 12
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SWEET WATER...DIXONS MILL...MAGNOLIA...VINELAND...SURGINER...WAYNE...
SHAWNEE...PUTNAM...NICHOLSVILLE...CLAYHILL AND SLATER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3222 8752 3213 8752 3213 8762 3200 8763
3200 8767 3199 8767 3199 8807 3201 8809
3199 8810 3201 8812 3202 8811
TIME...MOT...LOC 2332Z 256DEG 34KT 3195 8809
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
87/GRANTHAM2 follow-up statements
500
WWUS54 KBMX 312343
SVSBMX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
643 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
ALC091-010030-
/O.CON.KBMX.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-160401T0030Z/
MARENGO AL-
643 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY...
AT 643 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PUTNAM...OR 14
MILES WEST OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SWEET WATER...DIXONS MILL...MAGNOLIA...VINELAND...SURGINER...WAYNE...
SHAWNEE...PUTNAM...NICHOLSVILLE...CLAYHILL AND SLATER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3222 8752 3213 8752 3213 8762 3200 8763
3200 8767 3199 8767 3199 8807 3201 8809
3199 8810 3201 8812 3202 8811
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 256DEG 34KT 3198 8796
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
87/GRANTHAM408
WWUS54 KBMX 010001
SVSBMX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
701 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
ALC091-010030-
/O.CON.KBMX.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-160401T0030Z/
MARENGO AL-
701 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MARENGO COUNTY...
AT 701 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER DIXONS MILL...OR
7 MILES NORTH OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DIXONS MILL...MAGNOLIA...VINELAND...SURGINER...WAYNE...SHAWNEE AND
CLAYHILL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3199 8784 3209 8787 3220 8752 3213 8752
3213 8762 3200 8763 3200 8767 3199 8767
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 256DEG 34KT 3202 8776
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
87/GRANTHAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 5:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 8:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Winston | 118 min |
| Mar 31, 9:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 35 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 3 days |
| Mar 31, 9:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 60 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.