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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 9, 2022Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2022, 10:21 AM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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 9, 2022, 10:21 AM CDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2022, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Lee County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 9, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:46 AM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 8:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 10:21 AM CDT, 0 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
Jul 9, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	33 min
Jul 9, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	43 min
Jul 9, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	44 min
Jul 9, 11:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Chambers	3 hr
Jul 9, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	41 min
Jul 9, 1:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Pike	3 hr
Jul 9, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	46 min
Jul 9, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	39 min
Jul 9, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	36 min
Jul 9, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Pike	43 min
Jul 9, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah	41 min
Jul 9, 4:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lowndes	2 hr
Jul 9, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	55 min
Jul 9, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby, Talladega	32 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	59 min
Jul 9, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	34 min
Jul 9, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	54 min
Jul 9, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	43 min
Jul 9, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker	66 min
Jul 9, 5:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	2 hr
Jul 9, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	33 min
Jul 9, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	39 min
Jul 9, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa	51 min
Jul 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Clay, Jefferson, Shelby, Talladega	16 min
Jul 9, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Shelby	48 min

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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.