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Tornado Warning 177, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 2, 2003Pickens County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 2, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pickens 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
Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 1747 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 022228
TORBHM
ALC107-022300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
529 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER REFORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...PALMETTO AND
REFORM.

THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3347 8818 3353 8811 3353 8785 3333 8806

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	46 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	43 min
Jun 2, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	44 min
Jun 2, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 min

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.