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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 20, 2019Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2019, 2:58 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2019, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Barbour County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 20, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 2:21 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:21 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 2:35 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:22 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:47 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Pickens	48 min
Jun 20, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	57 min
Jun 20, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	66 min
Jun 20, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	24 min
Jun 20, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	31 min
Jun 20, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston	68 min
Jun 20, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale	53 min
Jun 20, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Greene, Jefferson, Perry, Shelby, Sumter	76 min
Jun 20, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	75 min
Jun 20, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	54 min
Jun 20, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair, Talladega	54 min
Jun 20, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	64 min
Jun 20, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	54 min
Jun 20, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery	59 min
Jun 20, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	38 min
Jun 20, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay, Cleburne, Randolph	64 min
Jun 20, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	60 min
Jun 20, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	35 min
Jun 20, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	47 min
Jun 20, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	53 min
Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	34 min
Jun 20, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	28 min
Jun 20, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	40 min
Jun 20, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 20, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	44 min
Jun 20, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	46 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.