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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 25, 2024Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2024, 11:55 AM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2024, 11:55 AM CDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2024, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bullock County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 25, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 1418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 24, 3:44 PM CDT, 20 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:44 PM CDT, 20 hours 11 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 25, 6:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	43 min
May 25, 6:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	49 min
May 25, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	48 min
May 25, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	27 min
May 25, 8:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Talladega	53 min
May 25, 8:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	46 min
May 25, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	54 min
May 25, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	45 min
May 25, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	35 min
May 25, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	49 min
May 25, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee, Macon, Montgomery	58 min
May 25, 11:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	36 min
May 25, 11:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	34 min
May 25, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	31 min
May 25, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Russell	60 min
May 25, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	33 min
May 25, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	57 min
May 25, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery, Pike	51 min
May 25, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	47 min
May 25, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	38 min
May 25, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	49 min
May 25, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	46 min
May 25, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	24 min
May 25, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	44 min
May 25, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	47 min
May 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	43 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	49 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	52 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	24 min
May 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	42 min
May 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	52 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	38 min
May 25, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	61 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.