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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 15, 2023Bullock County, Macon County, Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2023, 6:18 AM CDT for Bullock County, Macon County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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, 2023, 6:18 AM CDT (11:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bullock County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1415 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, 4:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 4:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:12 AM CDT, 6 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 14, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	21 min
Jun 15, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	30 min
Jun 15, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	43 min
Jun 15, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	32 min
Jun 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	62 min
Jun 15, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	29 min
Jun 15, 1:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	43 min
Jun 15, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	37 min
Jun 15, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	36 min
Jun 15, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	33 min
Jun 15, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	31 min
Jun 15, 3:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	50 min
Jun 15, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Pike	53 min
Jun 15, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	28 min
Jun 15, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	27 min
Jun 15, 4:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	34 min
Jun 15, 5:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	25 min
Jun 15, 5:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery	43 min
Jun 15, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	27 min
Jun 15, 5:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Perry	63 min
Jun 15, 6:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore, Macon	33 min
Jun 15, 6:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Perry	67 min
Jun 15, 6:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	64 min
Jun 15, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	62 min
Jun 15, 7:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	23 min
Jun 15, 7:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	52 min
Jun 15, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	48 min
Jun 15, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	43 min
Jun 15, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	42 min
Jun 15, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	41 min
Jun 15, 7:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	40 min
Jun 15, 8:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Bullock, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery	116 min
Jun 15, 8:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega	61 min
Jun 15, 8:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	46 min
Jun 15, 8:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	46 min
Jun 15, 9:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Jun 15, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	47 min
Jun 15, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	56 min
Jun 15, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	40 min
Jun 15, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	35 min
Jun 15, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	66 min
Jun 15, 11:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	36 min
Jun 15, 11:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	39 min
Jun 15, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	30 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	41 min
Jun 15, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	51 min
Jun 15, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	46 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.