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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 2026Bibb County, Chilton County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2026, 10:01 AM CDT for Bibb County, Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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 18, 2026, 10:01 AM CDT (15:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2026, 10:30 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bibb County, AL, Chilton County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 18, 6:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 6:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:11 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:36 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:54 AM CDT, 7 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
Jun 17, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	53 min
Jun 18, 5:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Hale	51 min
Jun 18, 5:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Hale	38 min
Jun 18, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette, Tuscaloosa	48 min
Jun 18, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas	34 min
Jun 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Greene, Sumter	4 hr
Jun 18, 9:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes	24 min
Jun 18, 9:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Sumter	25 hr
Jun 18, 9:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	51 min
Jun 18, 10:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Shelby	26 min
Jun 18, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	32 min
Jun 18, 10:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	30 min
Jun 18, 10:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	22 min
Jun 18, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	52 min
Jun 18, 11:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	78 min
Jun 18, 11:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount, Etowah, St. Clair	4 hr
Jun 18, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount, St. Clair	50 min
Jun 18, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	29 min
Jun 18, 12:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Pike	3 hr
Jun 18, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	30 min
Jun 18, 1:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Pike	4 hr
Jun 18, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	41 min
Jun 18, 1:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell	3 hr
Jun 18, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	37 min
Jun 18, 2:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah, St. Clair, Talladega	3 hr
Jun 18, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	54 min
Jun 18, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Montgomery, Pike	61 min
Jun 18, 3:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Montgomery	118 min
Jun 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Pike	77 min
Jun 18, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon	62 min
Jun 18, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	33 min
Jun 18, 4:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Pike	2 hr
Jun 18, 4:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell	3 hr
Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour	50 min
Jun 18, 5:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	3 hr

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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.