Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 180, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
963 WFUS54 KBMX 030115 TORBHM ALC073-030145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 815 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF HUEYTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BIRMINGHAM... HOMEWOOD...HUEYTOWN...MINOR...NORTH JOHNS AND SYLVAN SPRINGS. 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 3350 8722 3333 8714 3343 8675 3366 8684 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 20 min |
| Jun 2, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.