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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 5, 2004Jefferson County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 7:55 PM CST for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

985 
WFUS54 KBMX 060155
TORBHM
ALC073-060230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
754 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO NEAR GRAYSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...GRAYSVILLE...
KIMBERLY...MORRIS...WARRIOR AND WEST JEFFERSON.

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 3360 8712 3354 8701 3378 8671 3385 8684

$$

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, 7:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	16 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.