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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2025, 6:43 PM CDT for Bibb County, Chilton County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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 26, 2025, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2025, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bibb County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Shelby County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 30 min |
| May 25, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 51 min |
| May 25, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun | 28 min |
| May 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 63 min |
| May 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 61 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 46 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 46 min |
| May 25, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 57 min |
| May 25, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 59 min |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 40 min |
| May 25, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 20 min |
| May 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 61 min |
| May 25, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun | 31 min |
| May 25, 9:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lamar, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 4 hr |
| May 25, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| May 25, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 66 min |
| May 25, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 63 min |
| May 25, 10:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| May 25, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 41 min |
| May 26, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Shelby, Talladega | 48 min |
| May 26, 12:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Coosa | 48 min |
| May 26, 12:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 1:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 40 min |
| May 26, 1:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 63 min |
| May 26, 2:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 55 min |
| May 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 67 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 37 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 67 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Sumter | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 38 min |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 52 min |
| May 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 32 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.