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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:24 PM CDT for Chilton 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
- Jun 13, 2004, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
579
WUUS54 KBMX 131924
SVRBHM
ALC021-132000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
224 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHILTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 219 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLANTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...INGRAM AND
THORSBY.
STRONG DAMAGING WIND...AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3292 8679 3302 8653 3294 8653 3282 8644
3279 8659 3279 8672
$$What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1050 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 .UPDATE... OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INITIATING CONVECTION THIS MORNING ACROSS AREA. SOME BREAKS IN CLOUD COVER AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS HAVE ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO RISE INTO THE MID 80S. BELIEVE WITH CONTINUING BREAKS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...TEMPERATURES COULD STILL REACH HIGH VALUES. 12Z SUN KBMX SOUNDING SHOWING PRECIP WATER VALUES AROUND 2 INCHES WITH PLENTY OF INSTABILITY. EXPECT INSTABILITY TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON HOURS ALSO. WITH ALL THIS IN MIND...WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE WITH MOCLDY SKY WORDING. && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 02 JBW
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 1:36 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 136 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 ALZ011>015-017>050-141836- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 136 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. THE PRIMARY CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONG...SLOW MOVING STORMS...WILL BE THE HEAVY RAINFALL. LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME STORMS EARLIER TODAY...AND WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... A TROPICAL WAVE CURRENTLY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO IS FORECASTED TO MOVE NORTHWARD TOWARDS THE GULF COAST. AS THIS DISTURBANCE MOVES NORTHBOUND...ADDITIONAL MOISTURE WILL STREAM IN ACROSS THE STATE. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE AND SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY, LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY, MONDAY NIGHT, AND TUESDAY AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM AS WELL. THIS SITUATION WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY AS THERE IS A POTENTIAL THAT THIS COULD BECOME A HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.