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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2003, 6:35 AM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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, 6:35 AM CDT (11:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dallas County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.
774
WFUS54 KBMX 071135
TORBHM
ALC047-071200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
635 AM CDT MON APR 7 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 700 AM CDT
* AT 635 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF MARION JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BROWNS...MARION
JUNCTION...ORRVILLE...SELMA AND TYLER.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3231 8746 3230 8739 3229 8689 3231 8684
3233 8686 3235 8683 3251 8689 3248 8721
3248 8742 3232 8742
$$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, 5:32 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, 6:56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.