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NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 2:00 AM CST, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 300 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 FORECAST QUANDARIES...AREAL COVERAGE/PROBABLITY OF PRECIPITATION (POP)....FLOODING POTENTIAL...CLOUD COVERAGE...TEMPERATURES. OK...CLEARING SKIES NOTED ACROSS N CENTRAL LOCATIONS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SE ZONES. ISOLATED DENSE FOG DEVELOPING NE ZONES...OTHERWISE ONLY PATCHY FOG...WITH SOME LOW STRATUS DEVELOPMENT. SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS NE... WITH IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL YESTERDAY NEAR ANNISTON. STATIONARY FRONT OF LAST SEVERAL DAYS CONTINUES TO PUSH NEWD IN ATLANTIC STATES. WELL DEVELOPED CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING INTO MIDWEST. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH STRETCHING FROM E GREAT LAKES SWD INTO TX. OPEN GULF PATTERN CONTINUING...WITH BEST INSTABILITY ACROSS SW ZONES. 00Z TUE REGIONAL MODEL EVOLUTIONS THRU 00Z SUN IN GENERAL AGREEMENT...ESPECIALLY ALOFT. LATEST MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION AGAIN POINTING TOWARD A COMPROMISE SOLUTION. IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THIS...BUT GFS CONTINUES...LIKE PREVIOUS RUNS...TO PERFORM BETTER WITH PASSAGES OF SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES ALOFT. AS WITH LAST SEVERAL NIGHTS...GOOD MODEL RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY. THUS...WILL LEAN TOWARD COMPROMISE SOLUTION...WITH GFS BREAKING ANY DISCREPANCIES AGAIN. MODELS DEVELOPING FRONT AND PUSHING IT TO NEAR TN BORDER BY THIS EVENING...AND INTO CENTRAL AL...BY FRI MORNING. MODELS NOT BRINING MAIN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH THRU...AND THIS WILL ONLY BE THE S END...WITH BEST DYNAMICS STILL TO THE NE...UNTIL THU NIGHT. WHEN DRIER AIR...AND THUS A LESS OF A CHANCE OF CONVECTION... EXPECTED. GFS DEPICTING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS NE ZONES THIS AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS GULF THIS EVENING. THUS...MOST OF AREA WILL EXPERIENCE ONLY DIURNAL BASED CONVECTION. MODELS SHOWING SLIGHT INCREASE IN PRECIP WATER VALUES FROM PRESENT VALUES THRU DAY. DO NOT THINK...ACROSS N ZONES...THAT CONVECTION WILL BE AS WIDESPREAD AS YESTERDAY. FLOODING CONCERNS FOR TODAY CENTER AROUND NE ZONES...AND SOME RATHER LOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES...AROUND 1 INCH CLEBURNE TO 1.6 ETOWAH COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DUE DEVELOP MAY HAVE LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL...BUT BELIEVE POTENTIAL FOR HIGHER AMOUNTS MORE LIMITED TODAY THAN YESTERDAY...AS PRECIP WATER VALUES THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE DOWN FROM YESTERDAY/S AFTERNOON VALUES. WILL AT THIS TIME HOLD OFF ON ISSUANCE OF A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THESE LOCATIONS TODAY. HOWEVER...THIS SITUATION WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED CAREFULLY.. MAY HAVE TO DEAL WITH SOME LOW STRATUS AND PATCHY DENSE FOG IN ZONES THIS MORNING...WILL MAKE FINAL DECISION AT PRESS TIME PER OBSERVATIONS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY...BUT WILL GO WITH PTCLDY SKIES N TO MOCLDY S TODAY. WILL GO WITH MORNING ISOLATED WORDING TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON N AND TREND TO TOWARD LIKELY POPS ALL DAY SE. AGAIN...QUESTION WHETHER FRONT IS GOING TO GET AS FAR SOUTH AS MODELS ADVERTISE. BUT CANADIAN HIGH RATHER STRONG FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. WILL TAKE A BLENDED APPROACH HERE...AND WILL GO WITH LOW SCT POPS N TO LIKELY S. WILL CONTINUE WITH PTCLDY SKIES WORDING N TO MOCLDY WORDING S. AS FOR FRI...WITH QUESTIONABLE FRONTAL POSITION INTO S ZONES BY FRI EVENING...WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE N TO SCT S. WILL HOWEVER...GO WITH PTCLDY WORDING ALL AREAS. WILL EVEN GO WITH ISOLATED EVENING POPS FOR FRI NIGHT FAR S...AS FRONT MAY NOT PUSH THIS FAR. OTHERWISE...MODELS SUPPORTING CURRENT WORDING OF REMAINDER OF FORECAST...AND WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHANGES IF ANY. THANKS FOR COORDINATION HUN...FFC...MOB...TAE. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY... BHM BB 085/070/085/063/088 50/30/30/0/0 MGM EB 087/072/086/068/090 60/30/40/20/0 .BHM...NONE. 89 JBW
ALZ011>015-017>050-191430- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 729 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)... THE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH IN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA... WITH NUMEROUS SMALLER SCALE BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS DAYS THUNDERSTORMS COVERING THE AREA...AND ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONTENT REMAINING HIGH. ALL OF THESE FACTORS WILL LEAD TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR...LOCAL TV AND RADIO...FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
ALZ023-024-191300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 708 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 .A THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR TUSCALOOSA AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 800 AM CDT... AT 708 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH JOHNS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR KELLERMAN... BROOKWOOD...NORTH JOHNS...HUEYTOWN AND BESSEMER THROUGH 800 AM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS MINOR FLOODING. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 3360 8746 3303 8765 3324 8702 3344 8674
ALZ025-191345-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
738 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003
.A THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SHELBY COUNTY UNTIL 845 AM
CDT...
AT 738 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF HELENA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR HELENA...PELHAM...
ALABASTER...OAK MOUNTAIN STATE PARK...MONTEVALLO...CHELSEA...CALERA
AND COLUMBIANA THROUGH 845 AM CDT.
THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS MINOR FLOODING. VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...PRODUCING
LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND DRAINAGE AREAS.
LAT...LON 3335 8684 3325 8702 3307 8690 3309 8655
3336 8636ALZ023-191430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 836 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 .A THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR TUSCALOOSA COUNTY UNTIL 930 AM CDT... .LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COUNTY. AT 836 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF KELLERMAN TO 8 MILES WEST OF SAMANTHA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE NICOL AND LAKE TUSCALOOSA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR NORTHPORT...ELROD...SAMANTHA AND KELLERMAN THROUGH 930 AM CDT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS MINOR FLOODING. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS... FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS...RISING WATER ALONG CREEKS...AND UNDERPASSES WITH WATER ARE POSSIBLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3352 8780 3323 8779 3326 8714 3353 8733
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:53 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and power lines were blown down in and around the city of Centre. Pea size hail also accompanied this storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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