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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 11, 2002Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 5:57 AM CST for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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: Nov 11, 2002, 5:57 AM CST (11:57 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 2002, 6:30 AM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, AL

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 11, 2:10 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 111157
TORBHM
ALC109-111230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
558 AM CST MON NOV 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 553 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER TROY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BANKS...LINWOOD
AND TROY.

CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3181 8610 3168 8595 3186 8571 3194 8587

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 Emergency	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 Emergency	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 Emergency	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 Emergency	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	Tuscaloosa	31 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.