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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2003, 8:11 PM CST for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 15, 2003, 8:11 PM CST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hale County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
283
WUUS54 KBMX 160211
SVRBHM
ALC065-160300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
811 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 900 PM CST
* AT 808 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES WEST OF MOUNDVILLE TO 16
MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...AKRON AND
NEWBERN.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP
SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT
FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS...STAY INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3286 8783 3301 8772 3301 8743 3284 8743
3272 8748 3266 8753 3258 8753 3254 8780
3259 8774 3265 8773 3267 8778 3278 8782
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Tuscaloosa | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 55 min |
| Feb 15, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 41 min |
| Feb 15, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 66 min |
| Feb 15, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 54 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.