Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Birmingham AL ยท US
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Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 21 At 4:43PM CDT Until September 21 At 5:30PM CDT By NWS Birmingham AL
- Event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Shelter
Description
Overview
SVRBMX The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Etowah County in northeastern Alabama... * Until 530 PM CDT. * At 443 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Boaz, moving south at 10 mph.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted
Gadsden, Attalla, Sardis City, Reece City, Aurora, Noccalula Falls, Howelton, Crudup, Mountainboro, and Rockledge.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Affected areas
- Etowah County, AL
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Birmingham AL
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~39s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M32YSCE5F2QC05VG00FVQ284
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1e370d4ef2975abd912ce4ad5705228984ff02d7.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Birmingham AL
- AWIPS ID
- CAPBMX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6589
- WMO heading
- XOUS54
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 54
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SVR |
| NationalWeatherService | SVW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SVRBMX |
| WMOidentifier | WUUS54 KBMX 212143 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-21T21:43:00-00:00...storm...347DEG...10KT...34.23,-86.17 |
| windThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxWindGust | 60 MPH |
| hailThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxHailSize | 1.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0190.260921T2143Z-260921T2230Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-21T17:30:00-05:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Etowah County, AL
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 001055 |
| UGC | ALC055 |
- Polygons
- 34.2,-86.03 34.05,-85.91 34.02,-86.24 34.15,-86.24 34.18,-86.19 34.19,-86.13 34.19,-86.11 34.2,-86.1 34.2,-86.03