Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2003, 2:33 AM CST for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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 22, 2003, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 21, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 220833
TORBHM
ALC021-220900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
233 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CHILTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
* UNTIL 300 AM CST
* AT 231 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO OVER MAPLESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...JEMISON...
MAPLESVILLE AND THORSBY.
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...BATHROOM...
BASEMENT...OR HALLWAY. CLOSE ALL DOORS. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3274 8702 3283 8701 3284 8688 3299 8688
3305 8681 3290 8664 3267 8696
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 11:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 12:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 12 min |
| Feb 22, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa, Walker | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 2:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 2:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 3:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 6 hr |
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.