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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2003, 5:32 AM CDT for Marengo County, Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2003, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Marengo County, AL, Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
455
WFUS54 KBMX 071032
TORBHM
ALC091-119-071100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
531 AM CDT MON APR 7 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 531 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO OVER BELLAMY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BELLAMY...
DAYTON...DEMOPOLIS...FAUNSDALE...JEFFERSON AND PROVIDENCE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION.
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR A BASEMENT. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3247 8823 3250 8792 3249 8753 3234 8754
3232 8821
$$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, 4:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 5:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 5:43 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 |
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.