Intense afternoon heat led to at least one dust devil.
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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.
Intense afternoon heat led to at least one dust devil.
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 20, 9:27 AM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1027 AM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 .UPDATE...FOR ZONE FORECAST. && .DISCUSSION...SMALL THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX DEVELOPED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING IN AREA OF BETTER MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. AIR MASS ACROSS THE EXTREME WESTERN SECTIONS BEGINNING TO MOISTEN UP AND BECOME MORE UNSTABLE SO WILL INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THERE. OTHERWISE...EXPECT CLOUDS TO GRADUALLY INCREASE FROM WEST TO EAST THIS AFTERNOON. CURRENT TEMPERATURE FORECAST LOOKS FINE. UPDATE ALREADY SENT. && .AVIATION...12Z TAF DISCUSSION. CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE FROM THE WEST THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...MOST OF THESE CLOUDS WILL BE HIGH AND WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON OPERATIONS. MOST OF THE FORECAST WILL REMAIN DRY AT LEAST THROUGH 00Z. RAIN WILL BEGIN TO MOVE IN AFTER 06Z AND BEGIN TO AFFECT CENTRAL ALABAMAS TAF SITE FROM WEST TO EAST. MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAIN WILL BE MOVING IN AFTER 12Z. SO FOR NOW...WILL ONLY INCLUDE VCSH. 10/ARM && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && KSL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 100 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 ALZ011>015-017>050-211800- 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- 100 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2008 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY...AS A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH CENTRAL ALABAMA...FROM WEST TO EAST. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. WINDS OF UP TO 35 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
Portions of a mobile home roof were destroyed by what witnesses described as a large dust devil. Firefighters arriving on the scene described debris swirling over 100 feet in the air.
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