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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 30, 2024Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2024, 5:44 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 30, 2024, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Lee County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	46 min
Aug 29, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	57 min
Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton	24 min
Aug 29, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	45 min
Aug 30, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	36 min
Aug 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	35 min
Aug 30, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	15 min
Aug 30, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	37 min
Aug 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	14 min
Aug 30, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	24 min
Aug 30, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	37 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.