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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 25, 2025Calhoun County, Talladega County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 25, 2025, 5:20 AM CST for Calhoun County, Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2025, 5:20 AM CST (11:20 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 2025, 6:15 AM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, AL, Talladega County, AL

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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 Nov 24, 11:49 PM CST, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

Updated at 1149 PM CST MON NOV 24 2025
Periods of showers and thunderstorms are expected late tonight through Tuesday. There is a level 2 out of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms with hazards including isolated damaging winds, quarter size hail, and perhaps a couples of tornadoes.
Clear and colder conditions are forecast for Thanksgiving Day.
The next chance of rain may come on Sunday, marking the beginning of a wetter weather pattern.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 11:49 PM CST, 5 hours 31 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Birmingham AL
1149 PM CST Mon Nov 24 2025

...New DISCUSSION, AVIATION...

.KEY MESSAGES...
Updated at 1149 PM CST MON NOV 24 2025

 - Periods of showers and thunderstorms are expected late tonight
   through Tuesday. There is a level 2 out of 5 risk for severe
   thunderstorms with hazards including isolated damaging winds,
   quarter size hail, and perhaps a couples of tornadoes.

 - Clear and colder conditions are forecast for Thanksgiving Day.

 - The next chance of rain may come on Sunday, marking the
   beginning of a wetter weather pattern.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
(Tuesday through next Monday)
Issued at 1149 PM CST MON NOV 24 2025

An band of elevated convection will continue to organize to our
west tonight as an upstream shortwave approaches from the Ark-
La-Tex region. This activity will move into our northwestern
counties between 1 AM and 3 AM, and progress eastward toward the
I-59 corridor around 6 AM. As the associated shortwave skirts by
to our north, a trailing confluence band will be left in wake of
this early morning round of convection. Weak subsidence will allow
surface-based CAPE to build in the late morning into the afternoon
as mid to upper 60s dewpoints advect northward. Eventually
broad/weak cyclonic height curvature and weak height falls,
combined with daytime heating, will promote additional convective
development around 18z within confluence zones. Due to the
weak/subtle nature of the forcing, scattered cellular activity is
expected. A lingering low-level jet should slowly weaken through
the daylight hours, ranging from 30-40 knots as storms mature.
Though hodographs will not be particularly large, 0-3 km SRH of
200-300 m2/s2 will support weak to moderate mesocyclones within
the strongest cells, and perhaps a couple of tornadoes during the
afternoon and early evening hours.

The current remarkable stretch of above normal temperatures will
come to an end as a front surges through the region Tuesday night
into Wednesday. The establishment of a large trough over the
eastern CONUS will result in days of afternoon highs in the 50s
and cold nights. As the pattern becomes more progressive over the
weekend, zonal 500 mb flow will induce southwesterly flow at 850 mb
and low-level isentropic lift, leading to our next chance of rain
late Saturday into Sunday and Monday.

87/Grantham

&&

.AVIATION...
(06Z TAFS)
Issued at 1149 PM CST MON NOV 24 2025

MVFR to IFR ceilings will develop and spread northward through the
first 6 hours of the TAF period. An organized line of storms will
approach and perhaps affect KTCL and KBHM around 12Z with gusts
up to 30 knots and IFR visibility. Additional scattered showers
and thunderstorms will pass near/over all sites at various times
through much of the remainder of the TAF period.

87/Grantham

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...

A warm and moist airmass will persist ahead of a front on Tuesday
along with high rain chances. Behind the front, a drier airmass
will surge into the region. Afternoon RH values are expected to
fall to 25-35 percent for Thursday through Saturday. Winds will
be near 10 mph with the potential for gusts around 20 mph from the
south on Tuesday before shifting to the northwest on Wednesday
and Thursday.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Gadsden     54  74  50  61 /  60  90  60   0
Anniston    57  74  54  62 /  50  80  80   0
Birmingham  58  74  52  61 /  60  90  50   0
Tuscaloosa  57  77  51  61 /  70  90  30   0
Calera      56  77  53  64 /  50  80  60   0
Auburn      59  76  59  67 /  30  60  80   0
Montgomery  58  79  57  67 /  20  70  70   0
Troy        58  79  58  69 /  20  40  70   0

&&

.BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
&&

DISCUSSION...87/Grantham
AVIATION...87/Grantham

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 25, 3:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston	64 min
Nov 25, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston	48 min
Nov 25, 4:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	81 min
Nov 25, 4:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	71 min
Nov 25, 5:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	52 min
Nov 25, 5:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Cleburne	60 min
Nov 25, 6:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	43 min
Nov 25, 6:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	38 min
Nov 25, 7:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	51 min
Nov 25, 1:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	29 min
Nov 25, 1:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	35 min
Nov 25, 1:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	31 min
Nov 25, 1:55 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Tuscaloosa	65 min
Nov 25, 2:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	52 min
Nov 25, 2:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	48 min
Nov 25, 2:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	43 min
Nov 25, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	48 min
Nov 25, 3:00 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa	2 hr
Nov 25, 3:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	36 min
Nov 25, 3:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	45 min
Nov 25, 3:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	50 min
Nov 25, 3:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	50 min
Nov 25, 3:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Talladega	49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.