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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2003, 4:54 AM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2003, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
788
WFUS54 KBMX 070954
TORBHM
ALC081-071030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
454 AM CDT MON APR 7 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 530 AM CDT
* AT 450 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...AUBURN...
OPELIKA...SALEM AND SMITHS STATION.
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 3255 8561 3251 8543 3242 8543 3253 8501
3275 8521
$$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, 4:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 4:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 48 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.