Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Aug 26, 2002, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)

Expired

Aug 26, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, AL

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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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SVRBHM
ALC089-262215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
421 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF HAZEL GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MERIDIANVILLE
AND MOORES MILL.

LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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

LAT...LON 3500 8644 3482 8633 3468 8635 3461 8654
          3500 8669

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 26, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
240 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

UPPER LOW CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN KENTUCKY WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY
RETOGRADE TO THE WEST/SOUTHWEST THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS BECOMING
CENTERED OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA BY THURSDAY.  UPPER
LOW WILL THEN SHIFT WEST OF THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND...ALLOWING
SOUTHERLY FLOW TO INCREASE THROUGH LABOR DAY.

AS EVIDENCED BY THE RADAR THIS AFTERNOON IT IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT
TO PINPOINT THE BEST AREAS OF CONVECTION AS UPPER LOW PIVOTS TO
THE SOUTHWEST AND WEAK IMPULSES MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.  BELIEVE THE
BEST SOLUTION WILL BE TO GO WITH CHANCE POPS EACH DAY DURING PEAK
HEATING HOURS AND ISOLATED WORDING DURING THE EVENING HOURS AT ALL
LOCATIONS.

TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS.

HSV 66/87/66/87/66 23231
BHM 67/89/67/89/67 23231
MGM 69/90/68/90/69 13131

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
123 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA.

COLD AIR ALOFT...WITH WARM AND MOIST AIR NEAR THE SURFACE...WILL
RESULT IN SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH
OF THE AREA.  THE GREATEST INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON IS SETTING UP
IN NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA...WHERE THE COLDEST UPPER AIR RESIDES...AND
IN THE VICINITY OF AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM.  SOME STORMS
COULD BECOME STRONG...AND REACH SEVERE CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON.
GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...AS WELL
AS FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.  ELSEWHERE
ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND
EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH A LOWER
THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS...
ESPECIALLY IN NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA.

WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR:
HUNTSVILLE...4
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.