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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 2005, 7:57 AM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2005, 7:57 AM CST (13:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2005, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 131357 SVRBMX ALC057-131445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 755 AM CST THU JAN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTE * UNTIL 845 AM CST * AT 754 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAYETTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WAYSIDE BY 815 AM CST LAT...LON 3391 8793 3366 8793 3370 8757 3391 8765 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 7:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 38 min |
| Jan 13, 7:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 7:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 46 min |
| Jan 13, 8:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 42 min |
| Jan 13, 8:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 59 min |
| Jan 13, 8:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 58 min |
| Jan 13, 8:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 52 min |
| Jan 13, 8:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 13, 8:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jan 13, 8:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 63 min |
| Jan 13, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 26 min |
| Jan 13, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 28 min |
| Jan 13, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| Jan 13, 9:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 8 min |
| Jan 13, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 66 min |
| Jan 13, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 9:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 40 min |
| Jan 13, 10:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Marengo | 41 min |
| Jan 13, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.