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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 15, 2022Etowah County, St. Clair County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2022, 9:06 PM CDT for Etowah County, St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 15, 2022, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Etowah County, AL, St. Clair County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 8:52 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 8:52 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 3:59 AM CDT, 17 hours 7 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Birmingham AL
359 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022

ALZ011>015-017>050-161200-
Marion-Lamar-Fayette-Winston-Walker-Blount-Etowah-Calhoun-Cherokee-
Cleburne-Pickens-Tuscaloosa-Jefferson-Shelby-St. Clair-Talladega-
Clay-Randolph-Sumter-Greene-Hale-Perry-Bibb-Chilton-Coosa-Tallapoosa-
Chambers-Marengo-Dallas-Autauga-Lowndes-Elmore-Montgomery-Macon-
Bullock-Lee-Russell-Pike-Barbour-
359 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the
National Weather Service office in Birmingham.

.DAY ONE...Outlook through Tonight.

Excessive heat conditions will continue across Central Alabama today.
Heat indices could rise up to 109 degrees at times.

Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across Central Alabama
from 2 PM to 10 PM. Damaging wind gusts and hail are the main
threats.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hot and humid conditions will continue across Central Alabama through
Saturday. This combination will cause heat indices to reach 105
degrees or higher each afternoon.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Activation of storm spotters and emergency management may needed this
afternoon and evening.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:52 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:56 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:57 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:00 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:01 PM CDT, 5 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
Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Randolph	44 min
Jun 15, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Randolph	66 min
Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	33 min
Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	28 min
Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	44 min
Jun 15, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Tuscaloosa	14 min
Jun 15, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	69 min
Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	50 min
Jun 15, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	33 min
Jun 15, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	26 min
Jun 15, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	44 min
Jun 15, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	54 min
Jun 15, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	36 min
Jun 15, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	44 min
Jun 15, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	43 min
Jun 15, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell	53 min
Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Randolph	65 min
Jun 15, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	77 min
Jun 15, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Bullock	67 min
Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	60 min
Jun 15, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	68 min
Jun 15, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	51 min
Jun 15, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	58 min
Jun 15, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	53 min
Jun 15, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	49 min
Jun 15, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery	48 min
Jun 15, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Bullock, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery, Pike	71 min
Jun 15, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	53 min
Jun 15, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	40 min
Jun 15, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	44 min
Jun 15, 9:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	54 min
Jun 15, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Lowndes, Perry	23 min
Jun 15, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	43 min
Jun 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	30 min
Jun 15, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.