Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Jun 4, 2002, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)

Expired

Jun 4, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County St. Clair County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WUUS54 KBMX 041851
SVRBHM
ALC115-041930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
151 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 149 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RAGLAND...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RAGLAND AND 
ASHVILLE.

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.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 12:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
1219 PM CDT TUE JUN 04 2002

UPDATED ZONE FORECAST FOR AFTERNOON WORDING...WITH NO OTHER CHANGES
AT THIS TIME.  WET MICROBURST CHECKLIST INDICATES VERY HIGH
POTENTIAL FOR MICROBURSTS WITH AFTERNOON CONVECTION.  JUST NOW
REACHING THE CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...
WITH A FEW MORE DEGREES NEEDED CENTRAL AND SOUTH.  EXPECT VERY
STRONG DOWNDRAFTS AND OUTFLOWS WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
THIS AFTERNOON.

.BHM...NONE.

70

In the hours before

ALZ001>050-042003-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
100 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA.

THE HIGH PRESSURE THAT HAS BEEN ANCHORED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN
UNITED STATES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST TODAY IN RESPONSE TO AN
APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL CAUSE SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY FROM A LINE OF TUSCALOOSA...TO BIRMINGHAM...TO
ANNISTON...AND SOUTH.  ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED.

ALTHOUGH NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED...IF A
THUNDERSTORMS DOES DEVELOP...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL
WILL POSSIBLE OCCUR.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
IS UNLIKELY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING.

WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR:
HUNTSVILLE IS 0
BIRMINGHAM IS 0
MONTGOMERY IS 0

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.