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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 2025Autauga County, Coosa County, Lowndes County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2025, 1:21 PM CDT for Autauga County, Coosa County, Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2025, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2025, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Autauga County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Lowndes County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 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 text

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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 18, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	46 min
Jun 18, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cleburne	39 min
Jun 18, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	33 min
Jun 18, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa	30 min
Jun 18, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Jun 18, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	43 min
Jun 18, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	43 min
Jun 18, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	49 min
Jun 18, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	47 min
Jun 18, 3:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby	3 hr
Jun 18, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	51 min
Jun 18, 3:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby	3 hr
Jun 18, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	46 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.