Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 5:13 AM CDT for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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, 5:13 AM CDT (10:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elmore 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 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 161013 TORBHM ALC051-161100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 513 AM CDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELMORE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 511 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR KENT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF WETUMPKA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TITUS AND ECLECTIC. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3247 8599 3253 8590 3275 8603 3272 8639 $$
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, 4:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 29 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, 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 |
Nearby
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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.