Special Weather Statement
NWS Birmingham AL ยท US
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Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Northwestern Lee...Macon... Southeastern Tallapoosa And Southern Chambers Counties Through 330 PM CDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 306 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over Sturkie, or 8 miles east of Camp Hill, moving southwest at 20 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Auburn, Opelika, Tuskegee, Lanett, Tallassee, Dadeville, Camp Hill, Notasulga, Milstead, Lafayette, La Fayette, Shorter, Franklin, Waverly, Lakeview, Cusseta, Denson, Reeves Airport, Lake Tuskegee, and Auburn University. This includes the following highways... Interstate 85 between mile markers 20 and 60.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Affected areas
- Tallapoosa County, AL
- Chambers County, AL
- Macon County, AL
- Lee County, AL
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Birmingham AL
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~15s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M35BNK7YJ2H10XJ0J58C5REW
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e4801e91e5a60721e5194b09d046330c0181d880.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Birmingham AL
- AWIPS ID
- CAPBMX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.3436
- WMO heading
- XOUS54
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 54
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSBMX |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS84 KBMX 222007 |
| NWSheadline | STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN LEE...MACON... SOUTHEASTERN TALLAPOOSA AND SOUTHERN CHAMBERS COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM CDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-22T20:06:00-00:00...storm...042DEG...20KT...32.78,-85.51 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Tallapoosa County, AL
- Chambers County, AL
- Macon County, AL
- Lee County, AL
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 001123 |
| SAME | 001017 |
| SAME | 001087 |
| SAME | 001081 |
| UGC | ALZ037 |
| UGC | ALZ038 |
| UGC | ALZ045 |
| UGC | ALZ047 |
- Polygons
- 32.26,-85.65 32.39,-86.01 32.42,-86.02 32.43,-85.99 32.44,-85.99 32.45,-85.98 32.44,-85.96 32.45,-85.93 32.45,-85.89 32.47,-85.87 32.48,-85.85 32.5,-85.89 32.63,-85.89 33.0,-85.59 32.94,-85.2 32.88,-85.19 32.26,-85.65