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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 2, 2018Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2018, 3:20 PM CDT for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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 2, 2018, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2018, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

County Fayette County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Jul 2, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	32 min
Jul 2, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	24 min
Jul 2, 1:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Greene, Pickens, Tuscaloosa	3 hr
Jul 2, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	32 min
Jul 2, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	29 min
Jul 2, 2:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Hale	117 min
Jul 2, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	33 min
Jul 2, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	34 min
Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette	2 hr
Jul 2, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Walker	2 hr
Jul 2, 6:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.