Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2011, 2:28 PM CDT for Bullock County, Macon County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2011, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bullock County, AL, Macon County, AL, Russell County, AL
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 26, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
288 WUUS54 KBMX 261928 SVRBMX ALC011-087-113-262000- /O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0236.110526T1928Z-110526T2000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 228 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... SOUTHEASTERN MACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... WEST CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 226 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GUERRYTON...OR 6 MILES WEST OF HURTSBORO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HURTSBORO AND CREEK STAND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. && TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER... CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3240 8549 3229 8530 3215 8554 3219 8562 TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 216DEG 17KT 3224 8551 $$ 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 49 min |
| May 25, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 50 min |
| May 25, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 40 min |
| May 26, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 42 min |
| May 26, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 28 min |
| May 26, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 14 min |
| May 26, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 38 min |
| May 26, 2:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 41 min |
| May 26, 3:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 40 min |
| May 26, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 47 min |
| May 26, 7:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 27 min |
| May 26, 8:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee | 49 min |
| May 26, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 24 min |
| May 26, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 38 min |
| May 26, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 26, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 40 min |
| May 26, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 48 min |
| May 26, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 43 min |
| May 26, 1:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| May 26, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 23 min |
| May 26, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 26, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 49 min |
| May 26, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 33 min |
| May 26, 2:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 119 min |
| May 26, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore | 40 min |
| May 26, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah | 44 min |
| May 26, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon, Montgomery | 13 min |
| May 26, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Coosa, Talladega, Tallapoosa | 24 min |
| May 26, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 23 min |
| May 26, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 18 min |
| May 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah | 45 min |
| May 26, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Tallapoosa | 24 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 25 min |
| May 26, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair | 39 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 35 min |
| May 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Walker | 45 min |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 24 min |
| May 26, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 26 min |
| May 26, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Randolph | 36 min |
| May 26, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair | 52 min |
| May 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 52 min |
| May 26, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.