Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 2:39 AM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2003, 2:39 AM CST (08:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 220839 SVRBHM ALC125-127-220915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 239 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN ALABAMA TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 236 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF NORTHPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BROOKWOOD... HOLT AND TUSCALOOSA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STRONG DAMAGING WIND WILL KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS AND HOMES. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER...AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 11:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 12:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 12 min |
| Feb 22, 2:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 2:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 2:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 3:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.