Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 1:12 PM CST for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2002, 1:12 PM CST (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bullock County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Midway, AL | A few trees were blown down on CR 47 near Midway. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 121912 SVRBHM ALC011-121945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 110 PM CST TUE MAR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 145 PM CST * AT 108 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDWAY...AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF MIDWAY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MIDWAY AND THREE NOTCH. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1, 800, 8 5 6, 0 7 5 8. LAT...LON 3213 8574 3202 8547 3217 8543 3225 8550
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 12:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 53 min |
| Mar 12, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 22 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.