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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT for Hale County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 18, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Hale County, AL, Perry County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
555 WWUS84 KBMX 181821 SPSBMX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 121 PM CDT FRI MAR 18 2016 ALZ032>034-181900- PERRY AL-BIBB AL-HALE AL- 121 PM CDT FRI MAR 18 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN PERRY...SOUTHWESTERN BIBB AND CENTRAL HALE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 121 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF GREENSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MERTZ AROUND 135 PM CDT. HEIBERGER AROUND 145 PM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE ELLARDS...WATEROAK... OAKMULGEE...SPROTT...BIBB COUNTY AIRPORT...FOLSOM...MORGAN SPRINGS... PHIPPS...HARPER HILL AND HAVANA. LAT...LON 3293 8772 3296 8700 3259 8705 3272 8776 TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 274DEG 43KT 3281 8760 $$ 08
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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.