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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 7:21 PM CDT for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Walker County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
393
WWUS84 KBMX 060021
SPSBMX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
721 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
ALZ015-024-060045-
WALKER AL-JEFFERSON AL-
721 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN WALKER AND
NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
AT 721 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR GORGAS...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORDOVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PARRISH...GORGAS STEAM PLANT AND GORGAS AROUND 730 PM CDT.
CORDOVA...WEST JEFFERSON...BELOIT AND QUINTON AROUND 740 PM CDT.
SUMITON...DORA...BURNWELL AND LYNNS PARK AROUND 745 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE TUTWILER...MILLER
STEAM PLANT...BARNEY...THE WYE...LITTLE SHOAL AND GOODSPRINGS.
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 3388 8722 3366 8697 3345 8730 3348 8734
3349 8733 3349 8730 3348 8730 3348 8729
3350 8729 3350 8727 3351 8726 3352 8727
3351 8732 3359 8732 3359 8737 3360 8737
3360 8738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 233DEG 29KT 3362 8728
$$
05The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 10:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 12:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 12:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 1:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee, Macon | 54 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 15 min |
| Jul 6, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 18 min |
| Jul 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 15 min |
| Jul 6, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 35 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.