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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 30, 2002Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2002, 2:26 AM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2002, 2:26 AM CST (08:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 3:15 AM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fayette County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 30, 3:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Fayette, AL	Several trees and power lines were blown down just east of the city of Fayette.

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 30, 1:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 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

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The text

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

977 
WUUS54 KBMX 300826
SVRBHM
ALC057-300915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
224 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 224 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
  FAYETTE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GLEN ALLEN   
  ...FAYETTE...WAYSIDE...AND HUBBERTVILLE.

TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT
FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS...STAY INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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.

LAT...LON 3392 8794 3355 8793 3355 8771 3386 8755

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, 9:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	57 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, 2:34 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.