The hot and dry conditions that ended May continued into early June. The drought conditions were expanded north and west.
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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.
The hot and dry conditions that ended May continued into early June. The drought conditions were expanded north and west. Severe Drought (D2) conditions now include Dallas, Coosa and Clay Counties.
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 6, 10:45 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1145 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2011 .UPDATE... AVIATION. && .DISCUSSION... A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN BRUSHED OUR SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA ACROSS BARBOUR COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT NO CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY EVER DEVELOPED ACROSS THE CWA TODAY WITH DRY AIR ALOFT MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONG UPPER HIGH. TWEAKED THE TEMP AND DEWPOINT GRIDS TO REFLECT CURRENT OBS...AND ALSO TWEAKED HIGHS ON TUESDAY. WITH THICKNESS VALUES ALMOST THE SAME AS WHAT WAS OBSERVED TODAY ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA...DECIDED TO RAISE TEMPERATURES A DEGREE OR TWO HIGHER FOR THOSE LOCATIONS. ALSO...MODEL GUIDANCE MAY NOT BE PICKING UP ON HOW DRY THINGS ARE AT THE SURFACE THAT WILL LEAD TO MORE HEATING. AREAS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST WILL SEE LOWER THICKNESS VALUES TOMORROW AND COOLER 850 MB TEMPERATURES ALOFT...AS BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS SHIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST. HIGH TEMPERATURES TOMORROW WILL RANGE FROM THE MID TO UPPER 90S WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 65 CORRIDOR...AND LOW TO MID 90S FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF I-65. UPDATES ARE OUT. 56/GOGGINS && .AVIATION...06Z TAF DISCUSSION. NO LARGE SCALE IMPACTS TO AVIATION EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. CLOUD COVER SHOULD REMAIN AT A MINIMUM WITH MAXIMUM COVERAGE BETWEEN 2000 AND 2300 UTC. AS FOR VISIBILITIES ONLY TCL AND TOI SPENT ANY MEANINGFUL TIME BELOW 6SM LAST NIGHT... AND THOSE ARE THE ONLY PLACES WITH ANY VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS THAT MUCH OF THE HAZE HAS BEEN PUSHED SOUTHWARD. THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES ON TUESDAY REMAIN SLIM WITH NO MENTION IN THE FORECAST FOR NOW...ALTHOUGH THE BEST MOISTURE AND CONVERGENCE WILL BE CLOSEST TO TOI/MGM. MOST LIKELY MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE JUST SOUTH OF THESE TERMINALS. THE SURFACE RIDGE SLIDES EAST OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY...BRINGING A MORE PRONOUNCED SOUTHEAST TO EAST FLOW AREA WIDE. 75 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 75/56
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1000 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2011 ALZ011>015-017>050-071130- 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- 1000 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Dallas County was added to the Severe Drought (D2) category on the 7th and these conditions persisted through the remainder of the month.
Coosa County was added to the Severe Drought (D2) category on the 7th and these conditions persisted through the remainder of the month.
Clay County was added to the Severe Drought (D2) category on the 7th and these conditions persisted through the remainder of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 2011
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: 316189, 316190, 316191.