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Mesoscale Discussion 937
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2026, 2:18 PM CDT for 24 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2026, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2026, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 261
All 34 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 44 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Choctaw and 23 more | 119 min |
| Jun 1, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Lafayette, Marshall and 6 more | 119 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2026Every mesoscale discussion 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.