Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 102, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2003, 4:17 PM CDT for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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
- May 2, 2003, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
958
WFUS54 KBMX 022117
TORBHM
ALC065-022200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
417 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 415 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF AKRON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...AKRON AND
MOUNDVILLE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3289 8781 3289 8779 3301 8766 3290 8743
3284 8743 3283 8748 3277 8748 3270 8753
3287 8780
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 35 min |
| May 1, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 24 min |
| May 1, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 43 min |
| May 1, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 16 min |
| May 1, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 28 min |
| May 1, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 39 min |
| May 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 45 min |
| May 2, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| May 2, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 49 min |
| May 2, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 39 min |
| May 2, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 29 min |
| May 2, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 42 min |
| May 2, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 26 min |
| May 2, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 47 min |
| May 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 58 min |
| May 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 43 min |
| May 2, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 43 min |
| May 2, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 39 min |
| May 2, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| May 2, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 51 min |
| May 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 35 min |
| May 2, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 min |
| May 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 47 min |
| May 2, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 2, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 36 min |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 60 min |
| May 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 26 min |
| May 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 46 min |
| May 2, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 38 min |
| May 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 35 min |
| May 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 49 min |
| May 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Walker | 46 min |
| May 2, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 28 min |
| May 2, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 51 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 26 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 41 min |
| May 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 24 min |
| May 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 48 min |
| May 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 47 min |
| May 2, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 26 min |
| May 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 25 min |
| May 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 40 min |
| May 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 40 min |
| May 2, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 36 min |
| May 2, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| May 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 33 min |
| May 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 43 min |
| May 2, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 56 min |
| May 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 46 min |
| May 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Talladega | 45 min |
| May 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 30 min |
| May 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 65 min |
| May 2, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 59 min |
| May 2, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 58 min |
| May 2, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 66 min |
| May 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 18 min |
| May 2, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 62 min |
| May 2, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 54 min |
| May 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 16 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.