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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 8:55 PM CDT for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 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
- Jun 2, 2003, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lamar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
970 WUUS54 KBMX 030155 SVRBHM ALC075-030215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 855 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 854 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF BEAVERTON TO KENNEDY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... MANSFIELD...MILLPORT AND VERNON. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3405 8812 3354 8814 3354 8795 3402 8795 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 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.