Afternoon heating caused several isolated severe thunderstorms.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BMX wrote it up.
Afternoon heating caused several isolated severe thunderstorms.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 27, 11:44 AM CST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1244 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 .DISCUSSION... UPON REACHING THE CONVECTION HOUR...SHOWERS AND STORMS POPPING RIGHT ON CUE. BASED ON CURRENT ACTIVITY...AND ANTICIPATING NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES...WILL BUMP UP POPS SOME FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. TEMPS LOOKING GOOD. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. && .AVIATION...18Z TAF DISCUSSION. SCT CU AND CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AT THIS ISSUANCE. WENT FOR A SHORT PREVAILING GROUP FOR ANB AS TSRA LIKELY TO RUN OVER THEM SHORTLY. FOR ALL OTHERS...INCLUDED VCTS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. SHOULD CLEAR OUT OVERNIGHT WITH WINDS REMAINING LIGHT AND VARIABLE. 5 TO 6K FT SCT CU FIELD EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WITH ISO TSRA EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. && JONES/90
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1259 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 ALZ011>015-017>050-281759- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 1259 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL: BIRMINGHAM...MODERATE. MONTGOMERY...MODERATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:44 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down near County Road 37.
A press box and a dugout sustained roof damage.
Lightning struck a drilling rig at the Shoal Creek Mine in western Jefferson County. The lightning ignited methane gas in the mine, and six miners were injured by the subsequent fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 45329, 45331, 45327.