Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2003, 6:59 PM CST for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 14, 2003, 6:59 PM CST (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2003, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
941
WUUS54 KBMX 150059
SVRBHM
ALC027-150130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
700 PM CST FRI MAR 14 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CLAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 730 PM CST
* AT 656 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL WESTERN
CLAY COUNTY.
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INSIDE...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3341 8593 3315 8593 3315 8610 3320 8614
3330 8611 3330 8598 3338 8597
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 6:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 63 min |
| Mar 14, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 61 min |
| Mar 14, 6:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 41 min |
| Mar 14, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 41 min |
| Mar 14, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 53 min |
| Mar 14, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 22 min |
| Mar 14, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.