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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 17, 2022Chilton County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2022, 5:12 PM CDT for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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 17, 2022, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2022, 5:35 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chilton County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 1535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 17, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 12:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 4:55 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 4:57 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 4:59 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:08 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:10 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:12 PM CDT, 0 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 16, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	27 min
Jun 16, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	31 min
Jun 17, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	44 min
Jun 17, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	38 min
Jun 17, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	47 min
Jun 17, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	44 min
Jun 17, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	40 min
Jun 17, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	43 min
Jun 17, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	45 min
Jun 17, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	38 min
Jun 17, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	50 min
Jun 17, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	44 min
Jun 17, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	50 min
Jun 17, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	39 min
Jun 17, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega	44 min
Jun 17, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	40 min
Jun 17, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Jun 17, 2:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	53 min
Jun 17, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	42 min
Jun 17, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	50 min
Jun 17, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	47 min
Jun 17, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	31 min
Jun 17, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	28 min
Jun 17, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Marion	38 min
Jun 17, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Lamar	66 min
Jun 17, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	61 min
Jun 17, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	30 min
Jun 17, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	60 min
Jun 17, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	34 min
Jun 17, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Walker	58 min
Jun 17, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun	35 min
Jun 17, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	48 min
Jun 17, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	37 min
Jun 17, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	34 min
Jun 17, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Walker	43 min
Jun 17, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	23 min
Jun 17, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne, Jefferson, Talladega	52 min
Jun 17, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	44 min
Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	23 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	62 min
Jun 17, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	38 min
Jun 17, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	38 min
Jun 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	60 min
Jun 17, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	29 min
Jun 17, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	28 min
Jun 17, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Shelby	21 min
Jun 17, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	37 min
Jun 17, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Hale	44 min
Jun 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	35 min
Jun 17, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale, Perry	34 min
Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	56 min
Jun 17, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	37 min
Jun 17, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	36 min
Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Perry	61 min
Jun 17, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	60 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Perry	28 min
Jun 17, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	35 min
Jun 17, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	34 min
Jun 17, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	19 min
Jun 17, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	37 min
Jun 17, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	11 min
Jun 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	37 min
Jun 17, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon, Montgomery	68 min
Jun 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	37 min

Nearby

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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.