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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 2025Autauga County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2025, 1:13 PM CDT for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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 18, 2025, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2025, 1:46 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Autauga County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1205 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 12:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXAutauga46 min
Jun 18, 1:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCleburne39 min
Jun 18, 1:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXAutauga, Coosa, Lowndes39 min
Jun 18, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton, Coosa30 min
Jun 18, 1:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXJefferson42 min
Jun 18, 2:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXCoosa43 min
Jun 18, 2:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXMarengo43 min
Jun 18, 2:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXHale49 min
Jun 18, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXJefferson48 min
Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXSt. Clair47 min
Jun 18, 3:21 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBMXJefferson, St. Clair, Shelby3 hr
Jun 18, 3:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXRandolph51 min
Jun 18, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXJefferson, St. Clair, Shelby3 hr
Jun 18, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBMXFayette46 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.