Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2002, 12:11 PM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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 12, 2002, 12:11 PM CST (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2002, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 12:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Grady, AL | Several trees and power lines were knocked down in the vicinity of Grady. One carport was blown down and destroyed. |
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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 121811 SVRBHM ALC101-121915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1211 PM CST TUE MAR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 115 PM CST * AT 1208 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 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 3205 8636 3192 8622 3209 8600 3235 8608
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 53 min |
| Mar 12, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 22 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every 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.