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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 27, 2024Barbour County, Bullock County, Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 5:32 PM CDT for Barbour County, Bullock County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2024, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Pike County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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 27, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1016 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 27, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:36 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 5:03 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 5:23 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 5:28 PM CDT, 4 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 27, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	27 min
May 27, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marshall	44 min
May 27, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	38 min
May 27, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Cherokee, Etowah	50 min
May 27, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Sumter	54 min
May 27, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	35 min
May 27, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	13 min
May 27, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair	46 min
May 27, 5:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	42 min
May 27, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	40 min
May 27, 5:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	51 min
May 27, 5:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	48 min
May 27, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega	41 min
May 27, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair	33 min
May 27, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair	34 min
May 27, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	28 min
May 27, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega	49 min
May 27, 6:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair	3 hr
May 27, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	52 min
May 27, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Tallapoosa	60 min
May 27, 10:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	51 min
May 27, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	67 min
May 27, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon, Russell	62 min
May 27, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	47 min
May 27, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	23 min
May 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	45 min
May 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	35 min
May 27, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	29 min
May 27, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	61 min
May 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	44 min
May 27, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	39 min
May 27, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	42 min
May 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	52 min
May 27, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	62 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	53 min
May 27, 5:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lee	3 hr
May 27, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	46 min
May 27, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Pike, Russell	58 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.