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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Birmingham, AL

October 19, 2004Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 2004, 1:22 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lee 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
Oct 19, 9:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 191822
TORBHM
ALC081-191900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
121 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...OPELIKA...AUBURN

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 121 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF
  AUBURN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF DADEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO   
LOACHAPOKA AND AUBURN. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKLES CAN ALSO BE 
EXPECTED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3272 8568 3259 8570 3249 8530 3273 8532

$$

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, 8:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount, St. Clair	45 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, 1:36 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

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.