Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

May 27, 2001, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)

Expired

May 27, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

19 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Shelby County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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WUUS54 KBMX 280411
SVRBHM
ALC117-280430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1111 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1109 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF LAKE PURDY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MEADOWBROOK.

TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY
INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 9:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
901 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

BEEN CHASING THUNDERSTORMS AS SCATTERED STORMS CONTINUE TO FLARE
ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING.  WHILE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER
SEEMS TO HAVE DIMINISHED, THE SPC HAS KEPT MUCH OF OUR CWA WITHIN
THE SLIGHT RISK SO WILL CONTINUE THE POSSIBLY SEVERE WORDING.  WILL
CUT BACK ON THAT WORDING IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SECTIONS.
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING UUP QUICKLY PRODUCING SOME SMALL
HAIL AND LIGHTNING.

LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED SOUTH OF MEMPHIS ALONG
MS RIVER HAS PUSHED AN AREA OF RAIN THAT HAS ENTERED WEST CENTRAL
ALABAMA.  DEWPOINT DISCONTINUITY WAS LYING FROM THE MEMPHIS AREA
SOUTHEASTWARD TO APPROXIMATELY ANNISTON.  THIS BOUNDARY WAS
GRADUALLY SHIFTING NORTHEASTWARD WITH MOST OF THE SHOWERS ALONG THE
BOUNDARY AND BEHIND IT.

WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO FORECAST WITH UPDATE SHORTLY.
TEMPERATURES LOOKS REASONABLE.

-57-

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
940 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0906 PM    ANNISTON                  AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   CALHOUN                        CALHOUN CTY 911 REPORTED
                                          SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL IN ANB

0915 PM    5E ANNISTON               AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   CALHOUN                        SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF
                                          BALL SIZE HAIL WITH
                                          SMALLER HQAIL FROM 909 PM
                                          TO 915 PM EAST SIDE ANB

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.