Afternoon thunderstorms produced isolated wind damage across parts of Central Alabama.
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The episode as NWS BMX wrote it up.
Afternoon thunderstorms produced isolated wind damage across parts of Central Alabama.
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 17, 1:54 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 254 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 .DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS CENTERED JUST TO THE WEST OF THE AREA. A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS CURRENTLY MOVING SOUTHEAST ALONG THE PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WENT AHEAD AND INCREASED POPS IN THIS AREA FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL DIURNALLY-DRIVEN SCATTERED STORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CWA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND EXPECT THAT TREND TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LOOKING AT MODEL SOUNDINGS...THERE IS A MODERATE TO HIGH POTENTIAL FOR MICROBURSTS WITH THESE STORMS. SPC STILL HAS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR TODAY...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING WIND DAMAGE. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS/STORMS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS SE MISSOURI...AND MODELS CONTINUE TO BRING THIS MCS SOUTH SOUTHEAST INTO N AL LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. COULD SEE SOME STRONGER STORMS WITH THIS COMPLEX AS IT INITIALLY MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CWA LATER THIS AFTERNOON...BUT EXPECT A WEAKENING TREND AS IT MOVES FARTHER SOUTH INTO THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE AND NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...ALONG WITH RAIN CHANCES. THE GREATER CHANCES WILL GENERALLY BE ACROSS THE SOUTH AS THE RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE TN VALLEY. NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THE LONG TERM...AS THE STUBBORN RIDGE REFUSES TO PUSH OUT OF THE AREA. STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDANCE WITH TEMPS...WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S AND LOWS IN THE LOW 70S. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON/EVENING THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. 19 && .AVIATION...18Z TAF DISCUSSION. GENERALLY HEAT INDUCED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY POSSIBLE FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. ALSO A SMALL POSSIBILITY OF SOME ACTIVITY MAINLY NRN SECTIONS OF C AL DUE TO UPPER LEVEL FEATURES MOVING CURRENTLY ACROSS IL/TN AREAS THROUGH THE NW FLOW. FOR NOW CB/S IN AS COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE WIDELY SCATTERED AT THIS TIME BUT VERY UNSTABLE SO COULD BE STRONG. OUTSIDE OF TSRA ACTIVITY CONDITIONS SHOULD BE MAINLY VFR. SMALL POSSIBILITY FOR SOME PATCHY FOG AT TCL AIDED BY THE RIVER PROXIMITY. NOTICE...KEET TAF WILL HAVE (AMD LTD TO VIS WIND AND WX) AMENDED TO THE END OF THE FORECAST UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE WHILE CEILOMETER DATA IS BEING MONITORED FOR ACCURACY. 08/MNK && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 69 95 71 95 70 / 20 20 20 20 20 ANNISTON 69 95 69 94 69 / 20 20 20 20 20 BIRMINGHAM 69 95 70 94 70 / 20 20 20 20 20 TUSCALOOSA 71 95 71 95 70 / 20 30 20 20 20 CALERA 70 94 71 93 71 / 20 20 20 20 20 AUBURN 69 96 69 93 69 / 20 20 20 30 20 MONTGOMERY 73 96 73 94 72 / 20 20 20 30 20 TROY 71 96 71 94 71 / 20 20 20 40 20 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 19/08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1225 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 ALZ011>015-017>050-181800- 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- 1225 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DIURNAL HEAT INDUCED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH AROUND 8 PM ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH OR GREATER...AS WELL AS DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY AFTER 6 PM AS THE RESULT OF A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY AND TRACK SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN ALABAMA. DAMAGING WIND...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL COULD RESULT FROM THIS SYSTEM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BECOME NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. 08/MNK
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:31 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down onto a mobile home along Boundary Avenue, in Cedar Bluff.
A vehicle struck a tree that was blown down across Tabernacle Road, west of Locust Fork.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in the Inverness and Meadow Brook areas of northern Shelby County, including at the Inverness Landing, Inverness Cliffs, and Lake Heather Estates apartment complexes. A concrete light pole was blown down onto vehicles in the Inverness Plaza parking lot. Inverness Parkway, Caldwell Mill Road and Lakeland Trail were all blocked by downed trees.
A tree was blown down onto power lines at the 5000 block of Cahaba River road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 2010
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: 244588, 244590, 244602, 244608, 244603.