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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2026, 3:57 PM CDT for Elmore County, Macon County, Montgomery 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
- Jul 17, 2026, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2026, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elmore County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 1:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 2:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 23 min |
| Jul 17, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 27 min |
| Jul 17, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 31 min |
| Jul 17, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 27 min |
| Jul 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Winston | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 24 min |
| Jul 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 33 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.