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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 27, 2025Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2025, 1:59 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. 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, 2025, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Cherokee County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 2025-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 83 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 2025-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXMontgomery42 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXShelby53 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBarbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell58 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXSt. Clair, Talladega45 min
May 26, 8:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXClay, Randolph42 min
May 26, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCalhoun, Cleburne57 min
May 27, 9:13 AM CDTFlood WatchBMXAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 25 more16 hr
May 27, 10:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBibb, Dallas, Perry54 min
May 27, 10:38 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXJefferson2 hr
May 27, 10:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXChilton43 min
May 27, 11:37 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXJefferson, Shelby3 hr
May 27, 11:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXAutauga, Coosa, Talladega46 min
May 27, 12:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXClay46 min
May 27, 12:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXElmore41 min
May 27, 12:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay, Cleburne, Randolph57 min
May 27, 12:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXElmore, Montgomery, Tallapoosa51 min
May 27, 1:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCleburne35 min
May 27, 1:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXCalhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne3 hr
May 27, 1:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXPike53 min
May 27, 1:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXRandolph36 min
May 27, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike52 min
May 27, 2:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBullock50 min
May 27, 2:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXRussell51 min
May 27, 2:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBarbour50 min
May 27, 2:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXBarbour39 min
May 27, 4:19 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningBMXCherokee4 hr
May 27, 4:26 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXLee, Russell2 hr
May 27, 6:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXMarengo69 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.