Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2003, 3:49 AM CST for Blount County, Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 3:49 AM CST (09:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blount County, AL, Etowah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
170 WFUS54 KBMX 220949 TORBHM ALC009-055-221015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 348 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BLOUNT COUNTY IN ALABAMA ETOWAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 415 AM CST * AT 347 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SUSAN MOORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ALTOONA... MOUNTAINBORO...SARDIS CITY...SNEAD...SUSAN MOORE AND WALNUT GROVE. 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. TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3407 8658 3393 8645 3437 8570 3455 8586 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 11:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 12:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 12 min |
| Feb 22, 2:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa, Walker | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 2:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 2:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 6 hr |
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.