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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 2:16 PM CDT for Fayette County, Lamar County, Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 74 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 2, 2025, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2025, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 74 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 2, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 2, 1:37 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 1:37 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 2:41 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Birmingham AL 241 AM CDT Fri May 2 2025 ALZ011>015-017>050-031045- Marion-Lamar-Fayette-Winston-Walker-Blount-Etowah-Calhoun-Cherokee- Cleburne-Pickens-Tuscaloosa-Jefferson-Shelby-St. Clair-Talladega- Clay-Randolph-Sumter-Greene-Hale-Perry-Bibb-Chilton-Coosa-Tallapoosa- Chambers-Marengo-Dallas-Autauga-Lowndes-Elmore-Montgomery-Macon- Bullock-Lee-Russell-Pike-Barbour- 241 AM CDT Fri May 2 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham. .DAY ONE...Outlook through Tonight. There is a level 3 out of 5 risk for severe storms for locations near and north of Interstate 20 with a level 1 to 2 out of 5 risk for locations south of Interstate 20. Threats include damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and hail up to quarter size during the afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. There is a level 1 out of 5 risk for severe storms across central Alabama Saturday morning and afternoon. Threats include damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and hail up to quarter size. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of storm spotters and emergency management will be needed for today and Saturday.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 11:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Birmingham AL
1127 AM CDT Fri May 2 2025
ALZ011-021715-
Marion AL-
1127 AM CDT Fri May 2 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN MARION COUNTY
THROUGH 1215 PM CDT...
At 1127 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Weston, or near Hamilton, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Pigeye, Shottsville, Weston, Hamilton, Bexar, and Rankin Fite
Airport.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3431 8783 3405 8806 3405 8807 3412 8817
3432 8813
TIME...MOT...LOC 1627Z 213DEG 17KT 3420 8803
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
87/GranthamThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 40 min |
| May 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 50 min |
| May 2, 11:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 48 min |
| May 2, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston | 74 min |
| May 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 63 min |
| May 2, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| May 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| May 2, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 79 min |
| May 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 58 min |
| May 2, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 81 min |
| May 2, 4:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair | 69 min |
| May 2, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 97 min |
| May 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Hale | 64 min |
| May 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Hale, Perry | 61 min |
| May 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Perry | 51 min |
| May 2, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 44 min |
| May 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 45 min |
| May 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, Talladega | 87 min |
| May 2, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 49 min |
| May 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 46 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.