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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2023, 1:52 PM CDT for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 28, 2023, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2023, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:03 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Lee and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 11:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 11:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 28 min |
| Aug 28, 11:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 11:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 12:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 12:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 12:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon, Tallapoosa | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Aug 28, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 38 min |
| Aug 28, 2:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 53 min |
| Aug 28, 2:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 52 min |
| Aug 28, 3:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun | 43 min |
| Aug 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 5:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 6:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 3 hr |
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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.