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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 1:44 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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 21, 2026, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2026, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Barbour County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Aug 21, 12:57 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 12:57 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 9:40 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Shelby, Walker | 23 hr |
| Aug 20, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 11:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 11:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Etowah | 15 min |
| Aug 20, 11:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | DeKalb | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 12:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 12:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 4:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | St. Clair | 117 min |
| Aug 21, 4:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 4:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 4:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 4:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 4:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 5:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 35 min |
| Aug 21, 6:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 6:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 7:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 1:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 1:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 35 min |
| Aug 21, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 2:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Cleburne | 119 min |
| Aug 21, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 46 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.