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 3, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 300 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001 NO BIG CHANGES IN STORE THIS FORECAST RUN AS PREVIOUS PACKAGE HAS A FAIRLY GOOD HANDLE ON THINGS. MESO SCALE FEATURES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION/INSOLATION/AND WEAK SHEAR/VORT AXIS HAVE INTERACTED WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON....MAINLY CENTRAL AND NORTH. FIRST PERIOD POPS WILL REFLECT LATEST RADAR TRENDS BUT THINK AT LEAST SCATTERED EVENING IS WARRANTED....MENTIONING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ETA/AVN SIMILAR IN EVOLUTION OF UPPER LEVEL PATTERN THROUGH THE PERIOD. TWO FEATURES OF NOTE...DEVELOPING UPPER TROUGH ALONG THE EAST COAST...RIDGE DEVELOPING IN THE INTER MOUNTAIN WEST. THE AMPLIFYING PATTERN ACROSS THE SEUS WILL PUSH A SURFACE COLD FRONT THROUGH THE CWA THU AND EARLY FRI BEFORE IT STALLS NORTH OF THE COAST ON SAT. MODELS INDICATING MOISTURE CONVG SURFACE AND 850-700 WED AND THU WITH PRECIP WATER VALUES REMAINING HIGH 1.5 TO 2.00 INCHES. SOME DRYING TAKES PLACE FRI INTO SAT NORTH TO SOUTH. TOOK A MIXTURE OF MAV/FWC/PERSISTENCE FOR TEMPS AND SCATTERED POPS AT LEAST DAY TIME...SLIGHTLY LESS AT NIGHT. PRELIM NUMBERS... HSV EB 071/089 070/090 068 754531 BHM EE 072/089 071/090 070 754532 MGM EE 072/091 072/090 072 753433= .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>038-040>050-032100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 115 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE AIRMASS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL REMAIN WARM...MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON HOURS. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDING FROM LOUSIANA NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY WILL HELP TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA...THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE BULK OF THE RAINFALL WILL OCCUR NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 59. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. WHILE NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...ANY OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY BRIEFLY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE MOIST ATMOSPHERE AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 1 BIARMINGHAM IS 2 MONTGOMERY IS 2 1 BEING THE LOWEST...AND 5 THE HIGHEST THREAT. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A WET MICROBURST IS, SEE OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO.HTML.
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Guntersville. Lightning from the storms caused numerous locations to be without power for several hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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