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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2003, 4:24 AM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 7, 2003, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2003, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
831
WFUS54 KBMX 070924
TORBHM
ALC087-071015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
424 AM CDT MON APR 7 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 515 AM CDT
* AT 420 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF TUSKEGEE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...NOTASULGA...
SOCIETY HILL AND TUSKEGEE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3246 8591 3229 8584 3233 8544 3249 8544
3258 8570
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Apr 6, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 44 min |
| Apr 7, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 1:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 62 min |
| Apr 7, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 64 min |
| Apr 7, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 3:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon, Montgomery | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 3:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 19 min |
| Apr 7, 3:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 4:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 4:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 5:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 5:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 5:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 6:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 6:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 6:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 6:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 7:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 7:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Marengo | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 8:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 37 min |
| Apr 7, 8:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 8:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 9:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 9:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 10:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chambers, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes, Macon and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 56 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.