Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 10:54 AM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 21 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, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Russell 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, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 161554
TORBHM
ALC113-161615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1052 AM CDT THU SEP 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PHENIX CITY
* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT
* AT 1052 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
A TORNADO NEAR HOLY TRINITY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT
BENNING SOUTH...MOVING NORTH AT 70 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
LADONIA AND PHENIX CITY BY 1100 AM CDT
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3217 8517 3220 8498 3234 8501 3247 8500
3246 8522
$$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, 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, 10:57 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.