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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 19, 2026Jefferson County, St. Clair County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2026, 12:21 PM CDT for Jefferson County, St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2026, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

Counties Jefferson County, AL, St. Clair County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	52 min
Jul 18, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers	28 min
Jul 19, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	43 min
Jul 19, 10:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	40 min
Jul 19, 11:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa	2 hr
Jul 19, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount, Winston	44 min
Jul 19, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Walker	45 min
Jul 19, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	42 min
Jul 19, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	47 min
Jul 19, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	40 min
Jul 19, 12:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Jul 19, 12:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	41 min
Jul 19, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	36 min
Jul 19, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	32 min
Jul 19, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	31 min
Jul 19, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chilton	66 min
Jul 19, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga, Dallas	41 min
Jul 19, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	33 min
Jul 19, 1:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Hale, Perry	58 min
Jul 19, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	29 min
Jul 19, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	23 min
Jul 19, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Dallas, Lowndes	57 min
Jul 19, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	45 min
Jul 19, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Etowah	42 min
Jul 19, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo	60 min
Jul 19, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	44 min
Jul 19, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	42 min
Jul 19, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	47 min
Jul 19, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	52 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Alabama, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.