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Areal Flood Advisory 3, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 26, 2021Blount County, Etowah County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this areal flood advisory at Feb 26, 2021, 8:26 AM CST for Blount County, Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 109 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 2021, 8:26 AM CST (14:26 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 2021, 10:15 AM CST
In force
109 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Blount County, AL, Etowah County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2021-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2021-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.