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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 8:10 PM CST for Tuscaloosa 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, 8:10 PM CST (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 060210 TORBHM ALC125-060245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 810 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 805 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF SAMANTHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...SAMANTHA. 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 3340 8759 3327 8743 3339 8726 3356 8743 $$
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, 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, 8:19 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.