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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 14, 2026Coosa County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2026, 1:10 PM CDT for Coosa County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 14, 2026, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 1:37 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coosa County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 2327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -45 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	36 min
Aug 13, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	48 min
Aug 14, 10:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	36 min
Aug 14, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	35 min
Aug 14, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	39 min
Aug 14, 12:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Chambers	3 hr
Aug 14, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	45 min
Aug 14, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	40 min
Aug 14, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	45 min
Aug 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Coosa	41 min
Aug 14, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	49 min
Aug 14, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	48 min
Aug 14, 1:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Montgomery	119 min
Aug 14, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	39 min
Aug 14, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	33 min
Aug 14, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	47 min
Aug 14, 2:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Elmore, Lee, Tallapoosa	112 min
Aug 14, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock	49 min
Aug 14, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Pike	39 min
Aug 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga	2 hr
Aug 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	50 min
Aug 14, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	39 min
Aug 14, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	47 min
Aug 14, 3:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bullock, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Shelby	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Pike	60 min
Aug 14, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	39 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.