Isolated afternoon thunderstorms produced wind damage and locally heavy rain.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Isolated afternoon thunderstorms produced wind damage and locally heavy rain.
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 18, 6:03 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 703 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 .UPDATE...AVIATION DISCUSSION. && .DISCUSSION... THIS AFTERNOON INTO SAT...UPPER HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS TX/LA WILL ALLOW FOR WEAK PERTURBATIONS AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE FLOW TO ALLOW FOR A ISOLATED TO SCT TSRA TO DEVELOP WITH DIURNAL HEATING ACROSS MAINLY WRN/SRN PORTIONS OF C AL. AT THE SAME TIME...WE WILL SEE WEAK SFC TROUGHING ACROSS THE SE U.S. VERY HIGH 10-85H THICKNESSES WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT MID TO UPPER 90S...DEFINITELY ENOUGH HEAT TO FUEL A FEW STORMS. NOT ENOUGH MOISTURE TO PUT US IN DANGER OF REACHING HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA...BUT CERTAINLY VERY HOT CONSIDERING WE HAVE NOT OFFICIALLY STARTED SUMMER YET. BY LATE SUN...WILL BEGIN TO SEE A CHANGE IN THE UPPER LEVELS AS AN UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS THE PACIFIC NW AND THE UPPER HIGH FLATTENS AND ELONGATES OVER A GOOD PORTIONS OF THE S. AT THE SAME TIME AT THE SFC...LOW LEVEL FLOW CONTINUES TO BE WEAK AROUND OUR BERMUDA HIGH. WITH THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTING FURTHER EWD TWD AL...THIS SHOULD CREATE A DRIER ENVIRONMENT FOR NEXT WEEK. ONLY POP MENTIONS WILL BE ON THE SRN/SERN EDGES OF THE CWA FOR ANY STRAGGLER TSTMS THAT GRAZE THE REGION. THICKNESSES NOT QUITE AS HIGH NEXT WEEK...BUT MAYBE ONLY A COUPLE OF DEGREES DIFFERENCE HERE AND THERE IN THE LOWER DIRECTION. 08/MNK && .AVIATION...00Z TAF DISCUSSION. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. OTHERWISE...NOT EXPECTING TOO MANY PROBLEMS OTHER THAN PATCHY FOG WELL AFTER 06Z FOR A FEW LOCATIONS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON TOMORROW STARTING AFTER 18Z DURING PEAK HEATING. 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. && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 08/10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1240 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ALZ011>015-017>050-191739- 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- 1240 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 615 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ALZ035-041-190000- AUTAUGA-CHILTON- 615 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR AUTAUGA AND CHILTON COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 610 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VERBENA...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLANTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... VERBENA. MARBURY. NEW PROSPECT. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 27
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 753 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ALZ024-025-190145- JEFFERSON-SHELBY- 753 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 750 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HOOVER...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... BLUFF PARK. HOOVER. REGIONS PARK OR HOOVER MET. RIVERCHASE. OAK MOUNTAIN STATE PARK. VERIZON MUSIC CENTER AT OAK MOUNTAIN. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES...TREE LIMBS...AND POWERLINES. SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 27
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 12 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:27 UTC.
1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike caused a house to catch fire. Although no one was injured, the fire destroyed the inside of the house and caused a portion of it to collapse.
A tree was blown down onto Hickory Point Drive in Helena. Shingles were blown off roofs at the Amberly Woods subdivision in Alabaster, and power lines were blown down throughout Alabaster.
Flooding caused water to flow into a basement of a residence on Rockview Lane, in the Bluff Park area of Hoover.
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: 246588, 244616, 244620.