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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2016, 2:39 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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 31, 2016, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
County Lowndes County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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 130 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
- 573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 Jul 31, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 853 AM CDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ALZ011>015-017>050-011700- 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- 853 AM CDT SUN JUL 31 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...OUTLOOK THROUGH TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S COMBINED WITH MOIST CONDITIONS IN PLACE, MAY LEAD TO HIGHER HEAT INDEX VALUES THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW LOCATIONS MAY REACH 105 AT TIMES GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO TUSKEGEE. CONFIDENCE REMAINS LOW AT THIS TIME, BASED ON EXPECTED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 33 min |
| Jul 31, 2:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | St. Clair, Talladega | 117 min |
| Jul 31, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee | 23 min |
| Jul 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dale | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 52 min |
| Jul 31, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 4:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Barbour | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 27 min |
| Jul 31, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 20 min |
| Jul 31, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 5:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.