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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 25, 2024Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2024, 5:33 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1418 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBlount43 min
May 25, 6:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXEtowah, St. Clair49 min
May 25, 7:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCherokee48 min
May 25, 7:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCalhoun, Talladega27 min
May 25, 8:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCalhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Talladega53 min
May 25, 8:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXClay46 min
May 25, 8:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXRandolph54 min
May 25, 9:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCoosa45 min
May 25, 9:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXAutauga35 min
May 25, 10:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXElmore49 min
May 25, 10:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXLee, Macon, Montgomery58 min
May 25, 11:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon36 min
May 25, 11:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBullock34 min
May 25, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock31 min
May 25, 11:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock35 min
May 25, 12:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBarbour, Bullock, Russell60 min
May 25, 12:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour33 min
May 25, 12:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXPike57 min
May 25, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery, Pike51 min
May 25, 1:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXPike47 min
May 25, 2:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXDallas38 min
May 25, 3:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXLowndes49 min
May 25, 3:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXSumter46 min
May 25, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter24 min
May 25, 4:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXLowndes44 min
May 25, 4:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXGreene47 min
May 25, 4:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXElmore43 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXElmore49 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXPickens52 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXPickens24 min
May 25, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXSumter52 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXTuscaloosa38 min
May 25, 6:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXSumter61 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.