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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 3, 2002Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2002, 5:05 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2002, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2002, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 3, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 977 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 031005
SVRBHM
ALC019-031030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
503 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 530 AM CDT

* AT 502 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN DEKALB COUNTY...MOVING 
EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RURAL NORTH
CHEROKEE COUNTY.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3448 8553 3431 8569 3427 8521 3459 8499

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale	45 min
May 2, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert	40 min
May 3, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	40 min
May 3, 2:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Franklin	4 hr
May 3, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	42 min
May 3, 3:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Marion, Winston	3 hr
May 3, 4:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	41 min
May 3, 4:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Morgan	3 hr
May 3, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	30 min
May 3, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Jackson	52 min
May 3, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	36 min
May 3, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	24 min
May 3, 5:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	24 min
May 3, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	34 min
May 3, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne, Randolph	23 min
May 3, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	34 min
May 3, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	49 min
May 3, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	28 min
May 3, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	40 min
May 3, 11:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Franklin, Marion	3 hr
May 3, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	32 min
May 3, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	45 min
May 3, 12:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Winston	3 hr
May 3, 12:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Cullman	3 hr
May 3, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	58 min
May 3, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	43 min
May 3, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	51 min
May 3, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	45 min
May 3, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	30 min
May 3, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	41 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.