Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 7:44 PM CST for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 16 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
- Feb 5, 2004, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 708 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
893
WFUS54 KBMX 060144
TORBHM
ALC063-060200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
744 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEAST GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 800 PM CST
* AT 740 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO OVER KNOXVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...KNOXVILLE AND
UNION.
THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.
CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3298 8797 3287 8784 3291 8777 3296 8775
3301 8772 3303 8773 3303 8781 3301 8781
3305 8786
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 6:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 2 hr |
| Feb 5, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 32 min |
| Feb 5, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 13 min |
| Feb 5, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 41 min |
| Feb 5, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 6:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 37 min |
| Feb 5, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 7:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 115 min |
| Feb 5, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Feb 5, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 8:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 8:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 41 min |
| Feb 5, 8:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 9:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 9:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 10:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Feb 5, 11:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 38 min |
| Feb 5, 11:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 16 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 46 min |
| Feb 6, 1:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount | 4 hr |
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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.