Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 11:22 PM CST for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 11:22 PM CST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Crossville, AL | Dime size hail was reported in the Crossville area. |
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 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
242 WFUS54 KBMX 300522 TORBHM ALC049-300600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1121 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST * AT 1117 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF FYFFE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...FYFFE... RAINSVILLE AND SHILOH. 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. 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.
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, 11:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 20 min |
| Mar 29, 11:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.