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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 11:10 PM CST for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 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, 11:10 PM CST (05:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cullman County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.
810 WFUS54 KBMX 300510 TORBHM ALC043-300530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1109 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST CULLMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1130 PM CST * AT 1107 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER BAILEYTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BAILEYTON. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE. 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 3429 8674 3420 8661 3428 8645 3430 8654
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, 10:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 47 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.