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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 5, 2016, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 646 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016 ALZ011>015-017>050-061500- 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- 646 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY MAY SEND HEAT INDEX VALUES OVER 105 DEGREES EACH AFTERNOON FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
211 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
ALZ040-042-051945-
DALLAS AL-LOWNDES AL-
211 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES AND
SOUTHEASTERN DALLAS COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM CDT...
AT 210 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTH OF BELKNAP...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING
EAST AT 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THIS
LOCATION FURTHER WEST ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DANNELLY RESERVOIR...TILDEN...MINTER...COLLIRENE...CARLOWVILLE...
FOSTORIA AND FARMERSVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3205 8686 3205 8718 3208 8719 3210 8723
3212 8724 3212 8726 3214 8725 3215 8728
3217 8729 3216 8730 3217 8731 3220 8674
3196 8673 3196 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 1910Z 276DEG 11KT 3209 8703
05Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 242 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016 ALZ036-037-043-052015- TALLAPOOSA AL-COOSA AL-ELMORE AL- 242 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN ELMORE... SOUTHEASTERN COOSA AND WEST CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CDT... AT 241 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EQUALITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ALEXANDER CITY...DADEVILLE...EQUALITY...JACKSONS' GAP...MARTIN DAM... KOWALIGA BRIDGE...WESTERN LAKE MARTIN...NORTHERN LAKE MARTIN... WIND CREEK STATE PARK...STILL WATERS RESORT...EASTERN LAKE MARTIN... CENTRAL...BLUE CREEK MARINA...SUSANNAH CROSSING... MAXWELL GUNTER RECREATION AREA...DARE PARK AND YATES RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3266 8620 3277 8624 3294 8583 3267 8577 TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 257DEG 20KT 3275 8611 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 9:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 9:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 10:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 11:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Hale | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Wilcox | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 25 min |
| Jul 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Hale | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 31 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.