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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 3, 2023Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2023, 8:30 AM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 3, 2023, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2023, 9:04 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pike County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDT, 18 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDT, 18 hours 56 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
Apr 3, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	33 min
Apr 3, 5:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	26 min
Apr 3, 6:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	41 min
Apr 3, 6:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	41 min
Apr 3, 7:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	40 min
Apr 3, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	41 min
Apr 3, 7:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	38 min
Apr 3, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Pike	44 min
Apr 3, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	59 min
Apr 3, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	27 min
Apr 3, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa	50 min
Apr 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	37 min
Apr 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	35 min
Apr 3, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	33 min
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	29 min
Apr 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	25 min
Apr 3, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	28 min
Apr 3, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	24 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.