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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 5, 2004Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 6:32 PM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 13 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: Feb 5, 2004, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fayette County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 708 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 060032
TORBHM
ALC057-060045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
632 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 628 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER BERRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BERRY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

CALL 1-800-856-0758 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3368 8769 3360 8751 3365 8752 3387 8754

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 6:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	2 hr
Feb 5, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	32 min
Feb 5, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	43 min
Feb 5, 6:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	41 min
Feb 5, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	44 min
Feb 5, 6:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	25 min
Feb 5, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	37 min
Feb 5, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	45 min
Feb 5, 7:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Sumter	115 min
Feb 5, 7:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 min
Feb 5, 7:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Feb 5, 7:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	16 min
Feb 5, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	35 min
Feb 5, 8:06 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and 1 more	3 hr
Feb 5, 8:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	35 min
Feb 5, 8:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	41 min
Feb 5, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Feb 5, 9:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	3 hr
Feb 5, 9:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	29 min
Feb 5, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	39 min
Feb 5, 9:51 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Blount	3 hr
Feb 5, 10:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	29 min
Feb 5, 10:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Feb 5, 10:59 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	4 hr
Feb 5, 11:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	37 min
Feb 5, 11:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and 1 more	4 hr
Feb 5, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	38 min
Feb 5, 11:59 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	4 hr
Feb 6, 12:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	16 hr
Feb 6, 12:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Blount	4 hr
Feb 6, 12:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	46 min
Feb 6, 1:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Shelby	4 hr
Feb 6, 1:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	St. Clair	4 hr
Feb 6, 2:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Dallas	3 hr
Feb 6, 4:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson	4 hr
Feb 6, 4:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Blount	4 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.