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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2026, 3:51 PM CDT for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 26, 2026, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2026, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Fayette County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 12:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 1:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 22 min |
| Aug 26, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 27 min |
| Aug 26, 1:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 1:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 27 min |
| Aug 26, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marion | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion, Walker, Winston | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Fayette | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 23 min |
| Aug 26, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Shelby | 24 min |
| Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 42 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.