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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2024, 1:14 AM CDT for Elmore County, Macon County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
- May 10, 2024, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2024, 1:44 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elmore County, AL, Macon County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 16.0
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 May 10, 1:08 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:08 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Birmingham AL 344 AM CDT Thu May 9 2024 ALZ011>015-017>050-101145- Marion-Lamar-Fayette-Winston-Walker-Blount-Etowah-Calhoun-Cherokee- Cleburne-Pickens-Tuscaloosa-Jefferson-Shelby-St. Clair-Talladega- Clay-Randolph-Sumter-Greene-Hale-Perry-Bibb-Chilton-Coosa-Tallapoosa- Chambers-Marengo-Dallas-Autauga-Lowndes-Elmore-Montgomery-Macon- Bullock-Lee-Russell-Pike-Barbour- 344 AM CDT Thu May 9 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham. .DAY ONE...Outlook through Tonight. Multiple rounds of showers and storms will move through Central Alabama. The first will move through this morning into the afternoon. The second round will move through tonight into the overnight hours ahead of a cold front. Severe storms will be possible with threats including damaging winds up to 60 mph, large hail, and a tornado or two. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of storm spotters and emergency management may be needed through early Friday morning.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 12:15 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 9, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 52 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Shelby, Talladega | 4 hr |
| May 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 58 min |
| May 9, 7:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| May 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 4 hr |
| May 9, 7:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 4 hr |
| May 9, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Hale, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 75 min |
| May 9, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 9, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 35 min |
| May 9, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 52 min |
| May 9, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| May 9, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Perry | 63 min |
| May 9, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 38 min |
| May 9, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 62 min |
| May 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Lee, Macon, Montgomery | 69 min |
| May 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Elmore, Lee, Macon, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Russell | 60 min |
| May 9, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 43 min |
| May 9, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 53 min |
| May 9, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lee | 3 hr |
| May 9, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 24 min |
| May 9, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 47 min |
| May 10, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 63 min |
| May 10, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 30 min |
| May 10, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 30 min |
| May 10, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 41 min |
| May 10, 12:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo | 39 min |
| May 10, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 13 min |
| May 10, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 57 min |
| May 10, 12:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 38 min |
| May 10, 1:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Perry | 43 min |
| May 10, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 29 min |
| May 10, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 10, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 44 min |
| May 10, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 50 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.