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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 22, 2005Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2005, 3:13 PM CST for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 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 22, 2005, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2005, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tallapoosa County, AL

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 222114
SVRBMX
ALC123-222130-
/O.NEW.KBMX.SV.W.0022.050222T2113Z-050222T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
313 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 310 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DAVISTON...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF DADEVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

LAT...LON 3309 8574 3292 8579 3287 8561 3305 8561

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 222126
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
325 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

ALC123-222135-
/O.CAN.KBMX.SV.W.0022.000000T0000Z-050222T2130Z/
TALLAPOOSA AL-
325 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3309 8574 3292 8579 3287 8561 3305 8561

$$

KSL

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 22, 11:13 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 11:13 AM CST, 4 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1113 AM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

.UPDATE...FORECAST FRESHENED UP TO REFLECT (SLOWLY) DISSIPATING
FOG...AND TEMPERATURE TRENDS.

MAIN CONCERN CONTINUES TO BE POTENTIAL FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING
CONVECTION...MAINLY SOUTH OF A TUSCALOOSA TO ANNISTON LINE.  WEAK
BOUNDARY MEANDERING ACROSS THE AREA...WITH JUICY WARM AIR SOUTH OF
THE LINE.  AFTERNOON MODELS AND FORECAST PROFILES SHOW -4 TO -7
LIFTED INDICES...AND CAPES OF 1500 TO 2000.  AT THE MOMENT...JUST
LOOKS LIKE A MATTER OF TIME...EARLY AFTERNOON...FOR INITIATION.

OVERALL...NO MAJOR CHANGES.

&&

.BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

81

Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 22, 1:28 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
128 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

ALZ011>015-017>050-231330-
AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE-
CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE-
JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY-
PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA-
TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON-
128 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM.

.DAY ONE...(TODAY AND TONIGHT).

A QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT WILL REMAIN DRAPED ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA
THIS AFTERNOON...ROUGHLY ALONG INTERSTATE 20 FROM TUSCALOOSA TO
ANNISTON.  A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE CLOSE TO THIS BOUNDARY
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY).

THE QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT CONTINUES TO MEANDER ACROSS CENTRAL
ALABAMA ON WEDNESDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM LINDEN TO MONTGOMERY TO EUFAULA.

...SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...
MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 22, 2:53 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
253 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0251 PM     HAIL             5 SW NEW SITE           32.98N 85.84W
02/22/2005  0.88 INCH        TALLAPOOSA         AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            HIWAY 22E

&&

10.5

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 21, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	40 min
Feb 21, 7:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	42 min
Feb 21, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	38 min
Feb 21, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	33 min
Feb 21, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	61 min
Feb 21, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	37 min
Feb 21, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	50 min
Feb 21, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	31 min
Feb 21, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	58 min
Feb 21, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	35 min
Feb 21, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	25 min
Feb 21, 9:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	66 min
Feb 21, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	48 min
Feb 21, 9:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	46 min
Feb 21, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	52 min
Feb 21, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	34 min
Feb 21, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	33 min
Feb 21, 10:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	56 min
Feb 21, 11:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	45 min
Feb 22, 2:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	34 min
Feb 22, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	56 min
Feb 22, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	40 min
Feb 22, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	32 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.