Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

May 3, 2003, 7:09 AM CDT (12:09 UTC)

Expired

May 3, 2003, 7:45 AM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS54 KBMX 031209
SVRBHM
ALC125-031245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
709 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 745 AM CDT

* AT 709 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SAMANTHA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...KELLERMAN.

LARGE HAIL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. 
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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

LAT...LON 3350 8759 3332 8761 3325 8710 3345 8729
$$

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 5:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
550 AM CDT SAT MAY 03 2003

MCS...AND ASSOCIATED CLOUD SHIELD...NOT SHEARING OUT LIKE YESTERDAY MORNING.
A N TO S AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON W SIDE OF MCS APPROACHING W AL...
WITH CLOUD SHIELD WELL ENTRENCHED ACROSS MAJORITY OF CWA. THUS...WILL BREAK
OUT A MORNING GROUPING TO FIRST PERIOD OF ZONES AND MENTION ACROSS W
LOCATIONS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING ACROSS THE EAST. WILL ADDRESS SEVERE WORDING IN ZONE FOR THIS
MORNING SIMILAR TO AFTERNOON WORDING.

.BHM...NONE.
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JBW

ALZ011>015-017>050-022100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1243 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM.

.DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ONCE
AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT.  SOME OF
THESE WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL
BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS AS THE FRONT BECOMES
STATIONARY ACROSS ALABAMA.

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK WEEK DOES NOT SHOW MUCH PROMISE EITHER AS A
SERIES OF UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVES OVER US ON MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.  THESE DISTURBANCES WILL BRING BETTER SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR ANY STRONG
STORMS BEING ON TUESDAY.

NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EVEN THOUGH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONDITIONS...ACTIVATION OF STORM
SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY NOT BE
REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.