Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Jul 2, 2002, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)

Expired

Jul 2, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT

In force

20 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Walker County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS54 KBMX 022025
SVRBHM
ALC127-022045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
324 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WALKER COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JASPER...MOVING SOUTHWEST
  AT 5 MPH.

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

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INSIDE...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3361 8727 3372 8710 3395 8719 3395 8755

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 2:45 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
245 PM CDT TUE JUL 02 2002

LITTLE CHANGE IN CURRENT WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF
DAYS, AND MAYBE FOR THE NEXT WEEK.  AN UPPER TROF REMAINS ALONG THE
EAST COAST WITH AN UPPER RIDGE TO OUR NORTHWEST.  A SERIES OF WEAK
IMPULSES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA IN THE NORTHEAST UPPER LEVEL FLOW.
THIS, COMBINED WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS, WILL PRODUCE
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY, MOST NUMEROUS DURING
MAX HEATING.  LATER IN THE WEEK THE UPPER RIDGE STRENGTHENS AND
DROPS A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH, BUT A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS SHOULD
REMAIN IN PLACE. POPS TONIGHT SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CHANGES BASED
ON RADAR COVERAGE.

HSV 071/092 071/092 071 3424
BHM 071/091 071/092 071 3424
MGM 071/092 071/092 071 3424

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

ALZ001>050-022032-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
132 PM CDT TUE JUL 02 2002

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...

NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS.  SCATTERED AFTERNOON STORMS WILL REMAIN THE NORM.  SOME OF
THESE STORMS WILL BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. LOCALLY BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 30 MILES AN
HOUR...AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. NO
ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY.

WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR:
HUNTSVILLE...3
BIRMINGHAM...3
MONTGOMERY...3

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.