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Tornado Warning 154, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 7, 2003Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 4:09 PM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 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 7, 2003, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumter 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
May 7, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 072109 RRA
TORBHM
ALC119-072215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
410 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 407 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CUBA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...CUBA AND YORK.

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 3249 8863 3221 8865 3231 8794 3241 8806
          3257 8795

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson	37 min
May 6, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	58 min
May 6, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	32 min
May 6, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	46 min
May 6, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	64 min
May 6, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	32 min
May 6, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	31 min
May 7, 10:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	56 min
May 7, 11:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	28 min
May 7, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	58 min
May 7, 11:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	67 min
May 7, 12:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	53 min
May 7, 1:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	26 min
May 7, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	3 hr
May 7, 1:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	63 min
May 7, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	44 min
May 7, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	15 min
May 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	St. Clair	3 hr
May 7, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	64 min
May 7, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby	62 min
May 7, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Hale	42 min
May 7, 2:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun	58 min
May 7, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	31 min
May 7, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cleburne	74 min
May 7, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay	53 min
May 7, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	4 hr
May 7, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair	40 min
May 7, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	34 min
May 7, 3:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Cleburne	4 hr
May 7, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	62 min
May 7, 3:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Clay	4 hr
May 7, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	25 min
May 7, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	54 min
May 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Clay	68 min
May 7, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	60 min
May 7, 3:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Randolph	4 hr
May 7, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	32 min
May 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	4 hr
May 7, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	51 min
May 7, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, Talladega	52 min
May 7, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	St. Clair	4 hr
May 7, 4:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	4 hr
May 7, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	56 min
May 7, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	55 min
May 7, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	36 min
May 7, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	52 min
May 7, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay	43 min
May 7, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	44 min
May 7, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	54 min
May 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	50 min
May 7, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Tuscaloosa	33 min
May 7, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay, Coosa, Tallapoosa	48 min
May 7, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Chambers	47 min
May 7, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	34 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.