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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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 25, 2016, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Lee County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 25, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:56 AM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 456 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2016 ALZ011>015-017>050-261300- MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN-CHEROKEE- CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR-TALLADEGA- CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA- CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON- BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 456 AM CDT SAT JUN 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...OUTLOOK THROUGH TONIGHT. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE HEAT INDICES THIS AFTERNOON NEAR OR AT 105 DEGREES. THE MOST CRITICAL HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL MAINLY BE ALONG AND WEST OF I-65 AND ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-85. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL ONCE AGAIN APPROACH 105 DEGREES SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOONS...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUED. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. SOME MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE, WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING WIND GUSTS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR THESE STRONGER STORMS WOULD NEAR THE MAXIMUM HEATING OF LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:43 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Coosa and 20 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 25 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.