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Special Weather Statement, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 6, 2026Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this special weather statement at Sep 6, 2026, 3:21 PM CDT for Russell 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: Sep 6, 2026, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2026, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Russell County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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
Sep 5, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Randolph	52 min
Sep 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	47 min
Sep 6, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	40 min
Sep 6, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Blount	40 min
Sep 6, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	48 min
Sep 6, 2:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Jefferson	38 min
Sep 6, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Clay	58 min
Sep 6, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	36 min
Sep 6, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	33 min
Sep 6, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Russell	29 min
Sep 6, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	39 min
Sep 6, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Pickens	56 min
Sep 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	33 min
Sep 6, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	32 min
Sep 6, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Fayette	37 min
Sep 6, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Walker	50 min
Sep 6, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Macon	43 min
Sep 6, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	42 min
Sep 6, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Sumter	45 min
Sep 6, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Montgomery	50 min
Sep 6, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Autauga	61 min
Sep 6, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Bullock, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery and 1 more	54 min
Sep 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo, Sumter	46 min
Sep 6, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lamar	39 min
Sep 6, 4:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery	3 hr
Sep 6, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Barbour, Pike	43 min
Sep 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	35 min
Sep 6, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pike	31 min

Nearby

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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.