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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Aug 12, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2023, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
County Randolph County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 12, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 2:08 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 11, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Aug 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 49 min |
| Aug 11, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Shelby | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah | 76 min |
| Aug 12, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 28 min |
| Aug 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Russell | 63 min |
| Aug 12, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa, Shelby | 41 min |
| Aug 12, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 28 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.