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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 9, 2025Autauga County, Dallas County, Perry County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2025, 6:25 AM CDT for Autauga County, Dallas County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 9, 2025, 6:25 AM CDT (11:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2025, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Autauga County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Perry County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 8, 6:38 PM CDT, 11 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:38 PM CDT, 11 hours 47 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
Jun 9, 5:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	31 min
Jun 9, 5:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	37 min
Jun 9, 5:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	36 min
Jun 9, 5:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas, Lowndes	49 min
Jun 9, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Jun 9, 6:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	28 min
Jun 9, 6:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Tuscaloosa	64 min
Jun 9, 6:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas	34 min
Jun 9, 7:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby	54 min
Jun 9, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Talladega	45 min
Jun 9, 8:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	12 hr
Jun 9, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	41 min
Jun 9, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	43 min
Jun 9, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	40 min
Jun 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 min
Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	45 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.