Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 161, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 5:55 PM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Randolph County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
648 WFUS54 KBMX 072255 TORBHM ALC111-072345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 554 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF WEDOWEE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...WEDOWEE AND WOODLAND. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR WOODLAND IN EASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...AND WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF ONE OF THESE STORMS...SEEK SHELTER NOW. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3342 8530 3321 8525 3321 8565 3340 8564 $$
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 | 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 | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 54 min |
| May 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 66 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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, 5:57 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 | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.