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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2025, 12:33 PM CDT for Clay County, Cleburne County, Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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, 2025, 12:33 PM CDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2025, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Randolph County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Montgomery | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell | 58 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair, Talladega | 45 min |
| May 26, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 57 min |
| May 27, 9:13 AM CDT | Flood Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 25 more | 16 hr |
| May 27, 10:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb, Dallas, Perry | 54 min |
| May 27, 10:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| May 27, 10:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 43 min |
| May 27, 11:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Coosa, Talladega | 46 min |
| May 27, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 46 min |
| May 27, 12:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 41 min |
| May 27, 12:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 51 min |
| May 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 35 min |
| May 27, 1:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 3 hr |
| May 27, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 53 min |
| May 27, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 36 min |
| May 27, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 52 min |
| May 27, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| May 27, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Russell | 51 min |
| May 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 39 min |
| May 27, 4:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| May 27, 4:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lee, Russell | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 69 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.