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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2026, 3:44 PM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 19, 2026, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2026, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 19, 1:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:24 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 51 min |
| Aug 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Aug 18, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pike | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 12:05 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Macon, Pike | 33 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Greene | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Hale | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.