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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 6, 2022Pickens County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2022, 12:49 PM CDT for Pickens County, Tuscaloosa 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: Apr 6, 2022, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2022, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pickens County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 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: 1131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 Apr 6, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 6, 12:42 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 6, 12:12 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 12:25 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 12:30 PM CDT, 19 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
Apr 5, 9:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa	14 hr
Apr 5, 9:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery	14 hr
Apr 6, 2:43 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	6 hr
Apr 6, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	18 min
Apr 6, 12:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	35 min
Apr 6, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	45 min
Apr 6, 12:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Shelby	3 hr
Apr 6, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	51 min
Apr 6, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	26 min
Apr 6, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	45 min
Apr 6, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	38 min
Apr 6, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	51 min
Apr 6, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	33 min
Apr 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	48 min
Apr 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	31 min
Apr 6, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	26 min
Apr 6, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	39 min
Apr 6, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	31 min
Apr 6, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	42 min
Apr 6, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	26 min
Apr 6, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Lee, Tallapoosa	35 min
Apr 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	33 min
Apr 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	23 min
Apr 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	46 min
Apr 6, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	14 min
Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Clay, Tallapoosa	2 hr
Apr 6, 3:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Montgomery	18 hr
Apr 6, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	29 min
Apr 6, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	38 min
Apr 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	30 min
Apr 6, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	26 min
Apr 6, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	30 min
Apr 6, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	38 min
Apr 6, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	36 min
Apr 6, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee, Macon, Montgomery	50 min
Apr 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	26 min
Apr 6, 4:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lee, Macon, Montgomery	117 min
Apr 6, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	52 min
Apr 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	50 min
Apr 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	48 min
Apr 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	31 min
Apr 6, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	43 min
Apr 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell	113 min
Apr 6, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	24 min
Apr 6, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah, St. Clair	26 min
Apr 6, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	52 min
Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	DeKalb	34 min
Apr 6, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	38 min
Apr 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	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.