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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Birmingham, AL

October 24, 2010Bibb County, Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2010, 7:19 PM CDT for Bibb County, Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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: Oct 24, 2010, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bibb County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Shelby County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:03 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:09 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:12 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 7:13 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	48 min
Oct 24, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Marengo, Perry	38 min
Oct 24, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	52 min
Oct 24, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	38 min
Oct 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	36 min
Oct 24, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	43 min
Oct 24, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega	30 min
Oct 24, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker	52 min
Oct 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	24 min
Oct 24, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	38 min
Oct 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	29 min
Oct 24, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair	46 min
Oct 25, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	25 min
Oct 25, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Pickens	41 min
Oct 25, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston	31 min
Oct 25, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Pickens, Sumter	51 min
Oct 25, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	46 min
Oct 25, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Hale, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and 1 more	45 min
Oct 25, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	41 min
Oct 25, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Perry	52 min
Oct 25, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Etowah, Jefferson, St. Clair and 2 more	48 min
Oct 25, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Perry	52 min
Oct 25, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Etowah, St. Clair and 2 more	45 min
Oct 25, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, Talladega	48 min
Oct 25, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Cleburne, Randolph	47 min
Oct 25, 6:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	51 min

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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.