Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 7:29 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 7:29 PM CST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tuscaloosa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
651
WFUS54 KBMX 060129
TORBHM
ALC125-060215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
728 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 725 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO WEST OF ROMULUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ELROD...ROMULUS
NORTHPORT...SAMANTHA AND TUSCALOOSA.
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 3349 8770 3334 8741 3310 8772 3307 8782
3337 8784
$$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, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 13 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, 7:33 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.