Afternoon heating lead to isolated strong to severe thunderstorms. Some storms produced damaging winds, and one produced a downburst that caused an enhanced area of damage.
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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 lead to isolated strong to severe thunderstorms. Some storms produced damaging winds, and one produced a downburst that caused an enhanced area of damage.
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 21, 11:25 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1225 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2010 .UPDATE...FOR 18Z AVIATION. && .DISCUSSION... DRIER AIR ALOFT HAS WORKED INTO NORTH ALABAMA WHERE PW'S ARE NEAR ONE INCH OR LESS. PW'S INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARDS THE COAST WHERE NUMBERS ARE CLOSER TO TWO INCHES. CURRENT FORECAST OF SMALL RAIN CHANCES FOR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES LOOKS REASONABLE. LOW LEVEL THICKNESS AND 24 HOUR CHANGE MAPS INDICATE HIGHS TODAY WILL BE A DEGREE OR TWO HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY...WITH HIGHEST TEMPERATURES NORTHWEST. 58/ROSE && .AVIATION...18Z TAF DISCUSSION. VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TODAY FOR ALL SITES. HAVE KEPT THE MENTION OF CB AT MGM/TOI TO COVER THE SMALL POTENTIAL FOR LATE AFTERNOON TS DEVELOPMENT. LIGHT EASTERLY WINDS WILL PERSIST. 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. 27 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1230 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2010 ALZ011>015-017>050-221730- 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- 1230 PM CDT MON JUN 21 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 85. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH OR GREATER...AS WELL AS DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 27
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1101 AM CDT MON JUN 21 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0144 PM TSTM WND DMG MOORES BRIDGE 33.45N 87.79W
06/19/2010 TUSCALOOSA AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREE DOWN 1900 BLOCK OLD MOORES BRIDGE ROAD AND HIGHWAY
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JSIRMONPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1254 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0400 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 E MEADVILLE 32.07N 86.06W
06/19/2010 MONTGOMERY AL PUBLIC
TREE ON POWERLINES ALONG 231. ALSO TREES AND LIMBS DOWN
NEAR PINE LEVEL LOOP ROAD.
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JSIRMONThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down on Governors Island Bridge Road, near Lake Martin.
Numerous trees were blown down, including one onto a house, on Double Bridge Ferry Road, near Eclectic.
A lightning strike and subsequent fire caused moderate damage to a home on Kowalinga Road.
A lightning strike caused the attic area of a home to catch fire.
Trees and power lines were blown down at several locations near the Delta community, including Good Hope Delta Road, Lees Bridge Road, Center Hill Road, and the Lake Gerald area. Several barns in the same area were also damaged.
An apparent downburst caused an swath of intense damage across the southern portion of the city of Talladega. Around 100 trees were blown down, with some of them falling onto homes causing varying degrees of damage. In addition, hundreds of limbs were broken off, many of them also large enough to cause damage to homes as they fell. Structural damage not the result of falling trees or limbs was confined to outbuildings containing lumber at a hardware store. The total damage swath was more than 2.5 miles long, and up to 100 yards wide, with peak wind gusts estimated around 80 mph.
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: 246329, 246330, 246608, 246607, 246331, 246332.