Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 4:01 AM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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
- Sep 16, 2004, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barbour County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 160901 TORBHM ALC005-160930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 401 AM CDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EUFAULA * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 401 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR BATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF EUFAULA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DEVELOPING JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF BAKERHILL. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLAYTON...EUFAULA...AND BATESVILLE. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3172 8544 3189 8512 3212 8532 3192 8557 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 1:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 24 min |
| Sep 16, 2:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 4:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 4:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 5:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 8:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 9:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 23 min |
| Sep 16, 10:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, Perry, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 21 min |
| Sep 16, 10:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coosa, Lee, Macon and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Jefferson, Randolph, St. Clair and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 11:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah, Walker, Winston | 4 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Jefferson, Randolph, St. Clair and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah | 3 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.