Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 10:28 PM CST for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 29, 2002, 10:28 PM CST (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 29, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WFUS54 KBMX 300428 TORBHM ALC103-300515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1026 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1024 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MORGAN CITY AND WILL MOVE INTO MARSHALL COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DANVILLE AND MASSEY...MOVING EAST TOWARD HARTSELLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3444 8676 3431 8661 3446 8656 3457 8666
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, 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, 2:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 49 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 |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.