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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 17, 2025Calhoun County, Cleburne County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2025, 3:04 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 71 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 17, 2025, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2025, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 71 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, AL, Cleburne County, AL

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 16, 6:08 PM CDT, 20 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT, 20 hours 56 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 16, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair	38 min
Jun 16, 7:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount, Etowah	4 hr
Jun 16, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Randolph	42 min
Jun 16, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah	66 min
Jun 17, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	47 min
Jun 17, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Elmore, Montgomery, Pike	43 min
Jun 17, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale, Perry, Sumter	47 min
Jun 17, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair, Shelby	46 min
Jun 17, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Russell, Tallapoosa	45 min
Jun 17, 2:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	41 min
Jun 17, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Clay, Talladega	40 min
Jun 17, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	50 min
Jun 17, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	22 min
Jun 17, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	38 min
Jun 17, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	26 min
Jun 17, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Clay, Randolph	39 min
Jun 17, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	31 min
Jun 17, 4:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	34 min

Nearby

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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.