Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 18, 2003, 3:13 PM CST for Autauga County, Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2003, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Autauga County, AL, Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 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 182113
SVRBHM
ALC001-021-182145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
312 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEAST AUTAUGA COUNTY IN ALABAMA
SOUTHEAST CHILTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
* UNTIL 345 PM CST
* AT 307 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF BILLINGSLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MARBURY...
POSEYS CROSSROADS AND VERBENA.
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 3266 8674 3256 8658 3255 8642 3277 8642
3290 8651
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 54 min |
| 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 |
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.