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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 1, 2026Clay County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2026, 7:22 PM CDT for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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: Aug 1, 2026, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2026, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Clay County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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
Aug 1, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	35 min
Aug 1, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	46 min
Aug 1, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	31 min
Aug 1, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount	116 min
Aug 1, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	37 min
Aug 1, 10:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Cherokee	39 min
Aug 1, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	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.