Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

May 7, 2003, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 2003, 2:15 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blount County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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.

927 
WUUS54 KBMX 071831
SVRBHM
ALC009-071915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
130 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLOUNT COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF LOCUST FORK...MOVING EAST 
AROUND   35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALLGOOD AND 
HIGHLAND LAKE...IN SOUTHERN BLOUNT COUNTY.

TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT
FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS...STAY INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 

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

LAT...LON 3395 8636 3388 8635 3383 8643 3382 8652
          3377 8659 3377 8666 3382 8672 3391 8673

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NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 9:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
939 AM CDT WED MAY 07 2003

STORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA.  CURRENT
FORECAST WILL BE ADJUSTED SLIGHTLY.  BUSY DAY AHEAD.

.BHM...NONE.

ALZ011>015-017>050-071400-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
728 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

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

.DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...

ALABAMA WILL REMAIN IN A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS TODAY...AND WILL
CONTINUE TO SEE THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY MOVED INTO MISSISSIPPI...AND THESE ARE
EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO ALABAMA LATER THIS MORNING.  AFTER
THEY MOVE IN...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL LAST INTO THE
AFTERNOON HOURS.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS...WHILE
ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

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

AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL GRADUALLY BUILD IN FROM THE SOUTH OVER THE
REST OF THE WEEK.  THIS WILL MOVE THE AREA OF POTENTIAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWARD OUT OF ALABAMA FOR THE END OF THE WEEK.

ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY
THROUGH TUESDAY...AT THIS TIME NO WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED AREAS OF
SEVERE STORMS AREA EXPECTED ON THOSE DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR
ACTIVATION LATER THIS MORNING.

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.