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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 5, 2017Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Sep 5, 2017, 3:03 PM CDT for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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: Sep 5, 2017, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2017, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Lamar County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 267 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	53 min
Sep 5, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	65 min
Sep 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	53 min
Sep 5, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	37 min
Sep 5, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	24 min
Sep 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	61 min
Sep 5, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 min
Sep 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.