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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 388, NWS Birmingham, AL

December 19, 2002Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 19, 2002, 1:59 PM CST for Sumter 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 19, 2002, 1:59 PM CST (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Dec 19, 2002, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumter County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 19, 11:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 490 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.

957 
WUUS54 KBMX 191959
SVRBHM
ALC119-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
159 PM CST THU DEC 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 156 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMELLE TO
  24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUBA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BELLAMY...
EPES...GAINESVILLE...GEIGER...LIVINGSTON AND YORK.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD EXPECT
DAMAGING WIND...IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3232 8843 3297 8834 3299 8818 3294 8822
          3288 8819 3285 8817 3284 8819 3283 8814
          3280 8810 3275 8813 3272 8810 3270 8813
          3268 8807 3233 8807

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 19, 12:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	39 min
Dec 19, 2:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	37 min
Dec 19, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bibb	40 min
Dec 19, 2:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	29 min
Dec 19, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	39 min
Dec 19, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	36 min
Dec 19, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	32 min
Dec 19, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	52 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.