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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2024, 4:15 PM CDT for Bibb County, Hale County, Tuscaloosa 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 18, 2024, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2024, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bibb County, AL, Hale County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 18, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 18, 3:46 PM CDT, 29 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 18, 1:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 27 min |
| May 18, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon, Montgomery | 30 min |
| May 18, 2:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 27 min |
| May 18, 12:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 57 min |
| May 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 18, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 27 min |
| May 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| May 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 24 min |
| May 18, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair | 25 min |
| May 18, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 29 min |
| May 18, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| May 18, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah | 46 min |
| May 18, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 41 min |
| May 18, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 47 min |
| May 18, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 39 min |
| May 18, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 40 min |
| May 18, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 50 min |
| May 18, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 59 min |
| May 18, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| May 18, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 51 min |
| May 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene, Hale | 29 min |
| May 18, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 27 min |
| May 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 41 min |
| May 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.