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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 2004, 8:45 AM CDT for Blount County, St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Oct 19, 2004, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2004, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Blount County, AL, St. Clair County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:46 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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 191345
TORBHM
ALC009-115-191430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
845 AM CDT TUE OCT 19 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BLOUNT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ONEONTA
ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 842 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ASHVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ONEONTA...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STEELE...RIVERSIDE AND RAGLAND.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3397 8647 3386 8656 3358 8623 3378 8607
3398 8620 3392 8634
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 8:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 23 min |
| Oct 19, 9:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 119 min |
| Oct 19, 9:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Talladega | 36 min |
| Oct 19, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 35 min |
| Oct 19, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 38 min |
| Oct 19, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 24 min |
| Oct 19, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 37 min |
| Oct 19, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 41 min |
| Oct 19, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 47 min |
| Oct 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 15 min |
| Oct 19, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Oct 19, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 31 min |
| Oct 19, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 43 min |
| Oct 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Oct 19, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 64 min |
| Oct 19, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 46 min |
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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.