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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 25, 2022Marengo County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2022, 3:18 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 13 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 25, 2022, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2022, 3:31 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Marengo County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 24, 3:48 PM CDT, 23 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:48 PM CDT, 23 hours 30 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 25, 3:01 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and 13 more	18 hr
Jun 25, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	33 min
Jun 25, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	47 min
Jun 25, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	52 min
Jun 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Perry	19 min
Jun 25, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	24 min
Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	52 min
Jun 25, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Perry	37 min
Jun 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	35 min
Jun 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	29 min
Jun 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	28 min
Jun 25, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	41 min
Jun 25, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Jun 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	29 min
Jun 25, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	3 hr

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.