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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 18, 2003, 10:06 AM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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
- Nov 18, 2003, 10:06 AM CST (16:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2003, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sumter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 6:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KBMX 181606
SVRBHM
ALC119-181700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1005 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 1100 AM CST
* AT 1005 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 MILES WEST OF EMELLE TO 24
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUBA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS
INCLUDE...BELLAMY...GEIGER...CUBA...LIVINGSTON AND YORK.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STRONG DAMAGING WIND...UP TO 65 MPH...WILL KNOCK DOWN TREES AND
POWER LINES. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER...AVOID
WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3284 8883 3256 8867 3219 8881 3238 8807
3298 8820 3298 8834
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 57 min |
| Nov 18, 10:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 63 min |
| Nov 18, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 42 min |
| Nov 18, 10:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 46 min |
| Nov 18, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 32 min |
| Nov 18, 11:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 52 min |
| Nov 18, 11:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Nov 18, 11:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 48 min |
| Nov 18, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 47 min |
| Nov 18, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 39 min |
| Nov 18, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Nov 18, 12:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 51 min |
| Nov 18, 12:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 47 min |
| Nov 18, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Nov 18, 1:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, St. Clair, Shelby | 42 min |
| Nov 18, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 34 min |
| Nov 18, 1:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 27 min |
| Nov 18, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 32 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.