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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2025, 5:14 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 15, 2025, 5:14 AM CDT (10:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Jefferson County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 15, 4:50 AM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 4:50 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Birmingham AL 233 AM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025 ALZ011>015-017>050-161045- Marion-Lamar-Fayette-Winston-Walker-Blount-Etowah-Calhoun-Cherokee- Cleburne-Pickens-Tuscaloosa-Jefferson-Shelby-St. Clair-Talladega- Clay-Randolph-Sumter-Greene-Hale-Perry-Bibb-Chilton-Coosa-Tallapoosa- Chambers-Marengo-Dallas-Autauga-Lowndes-Elmore-Montgomery-Macon- Bullock-Lee-Russell-Pike-Barbour- 233 AM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham. .DAY ONE...Outlook through Tonight. Some severe storms are possible across the western half of Central Alabama through 8 am this morning. Damaging winds up to 60 mph, large hail up to quarter size, and a few tornadoes will be possible. An outbreak of severe weather is forecast this afternoon and evening through early Sunday morning. Damaging winds up to 70 mph, large hail up to golf ball size, and tornadoes, some of whichmay be strong and long-tracked, are likely during this time frame. There is a Slight Risk of Excessive Rainfall Saturday through Sunday morning. Generally 2-4 inches of rainfall is expected. A Flood Watch is now in effect. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of storm spotters and emergency management may be needed on Saturday and Saturday night.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 2:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lamar | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 3:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 3:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 4:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 4:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 5:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 6:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 10 min |
| Mar 15, 7:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount | 113 min |
| Mar 15, 8:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 25 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 25 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 54 min |
| Mar 15, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 16 min |
| Mar 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 58 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.