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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2016, 1:07 AM CDT for Barbour County, Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 16, 2016, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2016, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
394
WWUS84 KBMX 160607
SPSBMX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
107 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016
ALZ046-049-050-160645-
BARBOUR AL-BULLOCK AL-PIKE AL-
107 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN PIKE...BULLOCK AND
CENTRAL BARBOUR COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT...
AT 107 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR MIDWAY TO PICKETT TO NEAR BEANS
CROSSROADS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
UNION SPRINGS...MIDWAY...CLAYTON...BEANS CROSSROADS...WHITE OAK...
PICKETT...BARBOUR COUNTY PUBLIC LAKE DAM...SPRING HILL...SHOPTON...
GAINO...FRANKLIN FIELD...GUERRYTON...BOOT HILL...COMER...ABERFOIL...
LINWOOD...JOSIE...SIMSVILLE...SEDGEFIELD AND HIGH RIDGE.
LAT...LON 3183 8588 3223 8600 3223 8545 3221 8543
3215 8543 3215 8537 3195 8518 3181 8537
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 325DEG 27KT 3206 8547 3199 8562 3201 8589
$$
75The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, St. Clair | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Shelby, Talladega | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 12:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Tallapoosa | 58 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.