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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 30, 2002Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 5:42 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 30, 2002, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

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: 1640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

994 
WUUS54 KBMX 302242
SVRBHM
ALC083-302330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
541 PM CDT SUN JUN 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LIMESTONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ELKMONT...MOVING NORTH AT 5
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LESTER.

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 3481 8717 3482 8695 3507 8694 3505 8721

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	35 min
Jun 30, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.