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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 26, 2026Shelby County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 26, 2026, 5:21 PM CDT for Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 26, 2026, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2026, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Shelby County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 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
Aug 26, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	30 min
Aug 26, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	30 min
Aug 26, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	22 min
Aug 26, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	27 min
Aug 26, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	37 min
Aug 26, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	32 min
Aug 26, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	27 min
Aug 26, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	36 min
Aug 26, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	38 min
Aug 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	36 min
Aug 26, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	35 min
Aug 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb	36 min
Aug 26, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Walker, Winston	48 min
Aug 26, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tuscaloosa	29 min
Aug 26, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	38 min
Aug 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	48 min
Aug 26, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	24 min
Aug 26, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	37 min
Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	36 min
Aug 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	30 min
Aug 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	23 min
Aug 26, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	63 min
Aug 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	36 min
Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	St. Clair	31 min
Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	46 min
Aug 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	42 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.