On Thursday, June 14, isolated thunderstorms initially developed along an inverted surface trough across east central Alabama. This convection pushed westward during the early afternoon, with additional thunderstorms developing on outflow boundaries during the peak heating of the day.
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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.
On Thursday, June 14, isolated thunderstorms initially developed along an inverted surface trough across east central Alabama. This convection pushed westward during the early afternoon, with additional thunderstorms developing on outflow boundaries during the peak heating of the day.
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 14, 11:34 AM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1234 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 .UPDATE... FOR 18Z AVIATION. && .DISCUSSION... CENTRAL ALABAMA LOOKS TO BE IN A VERY INTERESTING PATTERN THIS MORNING...WITH AN ALMOST BACK DOOR BOUNDARY/EASTERLY FLOW SETTING UP IN OUR EASTERN COUNTIES. SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES AN INVERTED TROUGH MOVING WESTWARD INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE WITH A DISTINCT MOISTURE AXIS OF 68+ DEWPOINTS STRETCHING INTO NORTHERN GEORGIA. AFTER LOOKING AT VISIBLE SATELLITE AND IR SATELLITE FROM THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...SEVERAL MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES HAVE ALREADY MOVED INTO EASTERN ALABAMA AND WILL BE TRIGGERING MECHANISMS FOR SCATTERED STORMS TODAY. LOOKING AT THIS MORNING'S SOUNDING FROM KBMX AND COMPARING WITH KFFC'S SOUNDING...LFC'S ARE DISTINCTLY LOWER THE FARTHER EAST YOU TRAVEL...AND THE LOWER LFC'S WILL ALLOW STORMS TO DEVELOP AS PARCELS ARE LIFTED BY THE MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES. INSTABILITIES ARE CERTAINLY HIGH ACROSS WESTERN GEORGIA AND EASTERN ALABAMA...WITH SB CAPES AROUND 3000-3500...AND LI'S -6 TO -7 BASED ON THE LATEST RUC ANALYSIS. WITH DRY AIR PRESENT ALOFT IN THE 12Z KBMX AND LAPS SOUNDINGS...MICROBURSTS COULD BE A CONCERN THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 65. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT COULD ALSO OCCUR BASED ON THE EASTERLY TO SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW THAT WILL BE PERPENDICULAR TO THE RIDGETOPS OF EAST AND NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA. OROGRAPHIC LIFTING COULD POSSIBLY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THOSE LOCATIONS. LOOKING AT THE LATEST HRRR AND 4KM NSSL WRF AND LOCAL WRF HERE AT THE OFFICE...THEY ALSO AGREE THAT SCATTERED STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR AS AND GENERALLY DRIFT WESTWARD THROUGHOUT THE DAY. FORECAST WISE BASED ON ALL THE DATA...WENT AHEAD AND RAISED POPS ACROSS ALL OF OUR EASTERN COUNTIES TO HIGHER END CHANCE POPS AND SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FARTHER WEST ALONG THE INTERSTATE 65 CORRIDOR. RAINFALL CHANCES LOOK DIMINISHED WEST OF I-65...WITH LFC'S ALMOST 9K AND 10K FEET ACROSS WESTERN ALABAMA BASED ON LAPS SOUNDINGS AT TUSCALOOSA AND HAMILTON. IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE AS WELL THE MCV PRESENT JUST OFF THE GULF COAST TO OUR SOUTH...AND WE WILL SEE IF THAT WILL HAVE ANY AFFECT ON STORM DEVELOPMENT THAT COULD BRING A FEW OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES AS WELL. HIGHS STILL LOOK TO BE RATHER HOT TODAY...WITH LOWER 90S PRESENT AREAWIDE. WENT AHEAD AND ALSO TWEAKED HIGHS A DEGREE OR TWO HIGHER BASED ON THE LATEST TRENDS AND ADJUSTED DEWPOINTS A BIT HIGHER ACROSS THE EAST AS WELL. UPDATES ARE OUT. 56/GDG && .AVIATION... 18Z TAF DISCUSSION. A FEW STORMS ARE ALREADY BEGINNING TO DEVELOP NEAR THE AL/GA STATE LINE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF AN INVERTED TROUGH IN THE AREA. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION VCTS AT MOST SITES AS EXACT TIMING...IF ANY...OF STORMS AFFECTING THE TERMINALS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE DUE TO THE SCATTERED NATURE OF THE CONVECTION. ANB WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS SO INTRODUCED A TEMPO GROUP FOR THAT TERMINAL. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WITH HAIL ALSO A POSSIBILITY. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR SPEED/MOVEMENT OF STORMS AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THRU THE DAY TO SEE IF VCTS WILL NEED TO BE ADDED FARTHER WEST. ACTIVITY SHOULD WEAKEN DURING THE EVENING AND DIMINISH BY MIDNIGHT. OTHERWISE...LOOK FOR MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT WITH LIGHT/CALM WINDS. PATCHY FOG COULD BE A POSSIBILITY ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT...BUT WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT TRANSPIRES TODAY TO DETERMINE WHICH LOCATIONS WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE AT SEEING FOG DEVELOPMENT. 19 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 90 68 87 65 86 / 40 10 10 0 0 ANNISTON 90 68 86 65 85 / 50 10 0 0 0 BIRMINGHAM 92 70 87 68 87 / 30 10 10 0 0 TUSCALOOSA 94 71 89 68 89 / 0 10 20 10 0 CALERA 92 69 87 67 87 / 20 10 10 10 0 AUBURN 90 69 85 66 85 / 50 10 0 10 0 MONTGOMERY 93 71 87 67 87 / 30 10 10 10 0 TROY 92 69 85 65 86 / 50 20 10 10 0 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 56/19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1250 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 ALZ011>015-017>050-151800- 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- 1250 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM 1 PM UNTIL 8 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF I-65. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. .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 IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1254 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012
ALZ018-019-141830-
CALHOUN AL-ETOWAH AL-
1254 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ETOWAH AND NORTHERN
CALHOUN COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT...
AT 1254 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR HOKES BLUFF...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.
LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
HOKES BLUFF...
GLENCOE...
COBB CITY...
GADSDEN STEAM PLANT...
GADSDEN WATER WORKS...
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.
&&
LAT...LON 3385 8581 3385 8590 3386 8600 3407 8597
3402 8580 3398 8574 3388 8577
TIME...MOT...LOC 1754Z 090DEG 8KT 3396 8584
77/GLEASONThe Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:54 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
One tree was reported down at the intersection of Posey Road and Nora Drive and a second tree was reported down along Croft Ferry Road, northeast of Hokes Bluff.
A tree was downed across Ford's Valley Road near Hokes Bluff.
A tree was reported down on Water Tank Lane.
A tree fell on a house, causing minor roof damage. Power lines were also reported down in the Blue Ridge community.
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Multiple trees were reported down in the Claud and Fleahop Communities.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 396915, 396918, 396920, 396921, 396922, 396942, 396943, 396944, 396945, 396946, 396947.