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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2008, 12:11 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2008, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2008, 12:47 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jefferson County, AL, Shelby County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston | 65 min |
| May 10, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 40 min |
| May 10, 11:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 61 min |
| May 10, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Fayette, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 36 min |
| May 10, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 32 min |
| May 11, 12:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston | 3 hr |
| May 11, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Fayette, Jefferson, Walker, Winston | 39 min |
| May 11, 12:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair, Walker, Winston | 49 min |
| May 11, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Clay, Coosa, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega | 40 min |
| May 11, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker | 52 min |
| May 11, 12:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Walker | 39 min |
| May 11, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 52 min |
| May 11, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Jefferson, Walker | 46 min |
| May 11, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 52 min |
| May 11, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Etowah, Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega | 42 min |
| May 11, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 46 min |
| May 11, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega, Tallapoosa | 43 min |
| May 11, 1:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 11, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 46 min |
| May 11, 1:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega | 3 hr |
| May 11, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 41 min |
| May 11, 2:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 44 min |
| May 11, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 40 min |
| May 11, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega | 40 min |
| May 11, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 45 min |
| May 11, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 50 min |
| May 11, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Lee, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 23 min |
| May 11, 2:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 23 min |
| May 11, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Jefferson, Randolph and 3 more | 46 min |
| May 11, 2:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 87 min |
| May 11, 2:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 11, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell | 29 min |
| May 11, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne, Randolph | 39 min |
| May 11, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 16 min |
| May 11, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Coosa, Lee, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 33 min |
| May 11, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Macon, Pike, Russell | 50 min |
| May 11, 5:16 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 14 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.