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Tornado Warning 110, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Etowah County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 022235 TORBHM ALC055-022315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 535 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ETOWAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SARDIS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...MOUNTAINBORO AND SARDIS CITY. 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 3420 8611 3413 8626 3402 8588 3420 8585 $$
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, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 43 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, 5:39 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.