1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 20, 2:13 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 313 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2001 TO QUOTE THE MORNING AFD...SAME OLD, SAME OLD...FOR THE MOST PART AT LEAST. BASIC SYNOPTIC PATTERN OF RIDGE IN THE CENTRAL STATES... TROUGH ON THE EAST COAST...UNTIL RIDGES MERGE FOR FAIRLY UNIFIED SUBTROPICAL RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST. ETA RUN LOOKS RATHER DRY...SO WILL STICK CLOSELY TO LAST PACKAGE AND AVN TRENDS. LAST MINUTE SATELLITE AND RADAR TRENDS MAY FIGURE IN THE POPS FOR TONIGHT...BUT WONT TRY TO GET TOO CUTE. AMPLE MOISTURE AND HEAT OF THE DAY...WARRANT CONTINUATION OF SLIGHT POPS INTO TOMORROW. AS THIS FRONTAL PASSAGE HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY DIMINISHED OR POSTPONED OVER OUR AREA...IF A FRONT INDEED DOES PASS...NOT CONVINCED IT WILL DO MUCH MORE OTHER THAN ACT AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR CONTINUED NEAR CLIMATOLOGICAL CHANCES. IN THE EXTENDED...NOT MANY CHANGES PLANNED. HINTS OF LOWER POPS OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS EARLY IN THE WEEK...WITH WEAK CIRCULATION STILL NOTED IN THE NORTHERN GULF...OPENING UP AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. PRELIMINARIES................... HSV 072/089 070/090 4221 BHM 073/090 071/090 4321 MGM 073/092 072/091 6432= .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>038-040>050-202300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 219 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS...ALONG WITH WEAK DISTURBANCES ALOFT...WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ALTHOUGH A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY GROW LARGE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS...NO WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED AREAS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 2 BIRMINGHAM IS 2 MONTGOMERY IS 3 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A WET MICROBURST IS... SEE OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO/HWO.HTML
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:22 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down in the city of Homewood. One large tree fell onto an automobile and severely damaged it. Other trees fell and temporarily blocked roadways.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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