Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 10:14 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Abernant, AL |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 2257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.4
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 110414 RRA TORBHM ALC125-110445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1014 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1045 PM CST * AT 1012 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF BROOKWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BROOKWOOD...HOLT AND KELLERMAN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3328 8755 3315 8740 3327 8716 3336 8729
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 54 min |
| Nov 10, 6:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Walker | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 41 min |
| Nov 10, 7:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 56 min |
| Nov 10, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall, Morgan | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 8:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 8:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| Nov 10, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 9:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 9:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 9:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 18 min |
| Nov 10, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 10:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 10:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 10:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 10:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 10:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 10:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah, Greene, Sumter | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 11:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 11:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 11:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 11:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 11:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 11:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 35 min |
| Nov 11, 12:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 12:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 17 min |
| Nov 11, 12:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 24 min |
| Nov 11, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 12:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 35 min |
| Nov 11, 12:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 12:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 38 min |
| Nov 11, 1:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 44 min |
| Nov 11, 1:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 24 min |
| Nov 11, 1:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 35 min |
| Nov 11, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Coosa, Elmore | 65 min |
| Nov 11, 2:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 36 min |
| Nov 11, 2:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 37 min |
| Nov 11, 2:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 36 min |
| Nov 11, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 57 min |
| Nov 11, 5:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 33 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.