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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 27, 2002Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 4:29 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2002, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 272129
SVRBHM
ALC125-272215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
428 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 426 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF HOLT TO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF VANCE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  BROOKWOOD... COALING...AND VANCE.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND WILL KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...AND
DAMAGE BUILDINGS AND HOMES. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER...AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	42 min
Jun 27, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	39 min
Jun 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	45 min
Jun 27, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	43 min
Jun 27, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	51 min
Jun 27, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	44 min
Jun 27, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	46 min
Jun 27, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	39 min
Jun 27, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	39 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.