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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 1, 2026Marion County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2026, 12:45 PM CDT for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 1, 2026, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2026, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Marion County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jun 1, 6:17 AM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:17 AM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	32 min
May 31, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	28 min
May 31, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	26 min
Jun 1, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	57 min
Jun 1, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion	65 min
Jun 1, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah	55 min
Jun 1, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	53 min
Jun 1, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	57 min
Jun 1, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair	59 min
Jun 1, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	65 min
Jun 1, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Calhoun, Etowah, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby and 2 more	78 min
Jun 1, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	62 min
Jun 1, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	60 min
Jun 1, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	55 min
Jun 1, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega and 1 more	54 min
Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Sumter	68 min
Jun 1, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	52 min
Jun 1, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	41 min
Jun 1, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	82 min
Jun 1, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Perry	65 min
Jun 1, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	56 min
Jun 1, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	69 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay, Randolph	26 min
Jun 1, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon, Russell	87 min
Jun 1, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas, Marengo	53 min
Jun 1, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	83 min
Jun 1, 4:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Sumter	62 min
Jun 1, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Russell	60 min
Jun 1, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	30 min
Jun 1, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Pike	53 min
Jun 1, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marengo	26 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.