Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 4:55 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 19, 2003, 4:55 PM CST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:30 PM CST | 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 131 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
459 WFUS54 KBMX 192255 TORBHM ALC113-192330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 455 PM CST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 455 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR FORT MITCHELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT RURAL EASTERN RUSSELL COUNTY. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3229 8514 3213 8504 3226 8492 3247 8499 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 9:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Talladega | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 22 min |
| Mar 19, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 3:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 3:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 38 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.