Helena, AL Weather Forecast
Shelby County, Alabama
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Helena, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
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Helena, AL at a glance
Helena is home to about 22,117 people in Shelby County, across 22 square miles. It ranks 29th by population of 154 places in Alabama with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Alabaster, 6 miles away.
- County
- Shelby County
- Population
- 22,117 2023 est.
- Land area
- 22 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,001
- Forecast point
- 33.2834°N, 86.8792°W
How well can the network see Helena?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBMX (Birmingham, AL), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 510 ft above Helena. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Helena show up clearly. Helena is closer to its radar than 96% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KEKY (Bessemer Arpt). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Helena
- Alabaster, AL6 mi
- Hoover, AL8 mi
- Bessemer, AL8 mi
- Pelham, AL8 mi
- Montevallo, AL11 mi
- Hueytown, AL12 mi
- Midfield, AL12 mi
- Homewood, AL13 mi
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