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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 2003Barbour County, Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2003, 4:14 PM CST for Barbour County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 13, 2003, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2003, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barbour County, AL, Pike 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
Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

024 
WUUS54 KBMX 132214
SVRBHM
ALC005-109-132300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
414 PM CST THU MAR 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  EASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 412 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF BANKS TO 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRUNDIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BLUE
SPRINGS...CLAYTON...CLIO...EUFAULA AND LOUISVILLE.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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

LAT...LON 3174 8522 3172 8541 3163 8542 3163 8607

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 11:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	54 min
Mar 13, 11:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	66 min
Mar 13, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	56 min
Mar 13, 12:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	42 min
Mar 13, 12:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Perry, Tuscaloosa	63 min
Mar 13, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	46 min
Mar 13, 1:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	43 min
Mar 13, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	29 min
Mar 13, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	44 min
Mar 13, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	50 min
Mar 13, 2:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Talladega	25 min
Mar 13, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	67 min
Mar 13, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	51 min
Mar 13, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	41 min
Mar 13, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	44 min
Mar 13, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	38 min
Mar 13, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	44 min

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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.