Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 9:18 PM CST for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 9:18 PM CST (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 9:35 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Trinity, AL | Nickel size hail was observed in the Trinity area. |
| Mar 29, 10:20 PM CST | Hail 2 | Neel, AL | Two inch diameter size hail was reported near the city of Neel. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
992 WUUS54 KBMX 300318 SVRBHM ALC103-300415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 917 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 914 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DECATUR AND HARTSELLE. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS...STAY INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 9:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 37 min |
| Mar 29, 10:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 10:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 10:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 11:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 20 min |
| Mar 29, 11:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 11:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 11:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 11:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 12:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 12:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 1:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 2:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 2:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 3:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 9:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 9:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 10:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 17 min |
| Mar 30, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 12:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.