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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 2023Fayette County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2023, 9:52 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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 18, 2023, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2023, 10:25 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fayette County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 18, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 18, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 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 18, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	43 min
Jun 18, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	33 min
Jun 18, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	55 min
Jun 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	49 min
Jun 18, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	37 min
Jun 18, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	39 min
Jun 18, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	35 min
Jun 18, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	31 min
Jun 18, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Jefferson	2 hr
Jun 19, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	39 min
Jun 19, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay, Talladega	25 min
Jun 19, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	47 min
Jun 19, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	50 min
Jun 19, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	27 min
Jun 19, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	41 min
Jun 19, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	31 min
Jun 19, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	54 min
Jun 19, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	53 min
Jun 19, 4:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery, Pike	51 min
Jun 19, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	47 min
Jun 19, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	24 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	35 min
Jun 19, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 19, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	27 min
Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	40 min
Jun 19, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	38 min
Jun 19, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	41 min
Jun 19, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Montgomery	38 min
Jun 19, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	49 min
Jun 19, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Montgomery, Pike	59 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.