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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 10, 2024Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2024, 2:46 AM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2024, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pike County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 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

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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 May 10, 1:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 2:40 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 12:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 1:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 2:01 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 2:09 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 2:44 AM CDT, 2 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
May 9, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	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 Considerable damage threat	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 Considerable damage threat	BMX	Marengo	57 min
May 10, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	38 min
May 10, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Tallapoosa	30 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, 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.