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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 31, 2002Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 12:34 PM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2002, 12:34 PM CST (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2002, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 31, 12:53 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Hope Hull, AL	Nickel size hail was reported at the Rodeway Inn along Interstate 65.

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 311834
SVRBHM
ALC101-311930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1234 PM CST SUN MAR 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1230 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...THE SOUTHERN 
SECTIONS OF THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY...HOPE HULL...MACEDONIA...AND 
PINEDALE.

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	45 min
Mar 31, 1:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	43 min
Mar 31, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	27 min
Mar 31, 2:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	55 min
Mar 31, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	14 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.