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Tornado Warning 133, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 25, 2005Walker County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 2:31 PM CDT for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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: Sep 25, 2005, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Walker County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 25, 11:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 251931
TORBMX
ALC127-252015-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0133.050925T1931Z-050925T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
231 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 231 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CARBON
  HILL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF JASPER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NAUVOO AND CARBON HILL BY 240 PM CDT

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.

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

LAT...LON 3387 8763 3387 8753 3377 8752 3400 8720
      3401 8752

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 251935
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
234 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

ALC127-252015-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0133.000000T0000Z-050925T2015Z/
WALKER AL-
234 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
WALKER COUNTY...

AT 234 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CARBON HILL...OR
ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF JASPER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3387 8763 3387 8753 3377 8752 3400 8720
      3401 8752

$$
JBW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 12:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	25 min
Sep 25, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	44 min
Sep 25, 12:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Sep 25, 12:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	27 min
Sep 25, 12:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	42 min
Sep 25, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	45 min
Sep 25, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	14 min
Sep 25, 1:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	27 min
Sep 25, 1:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	38 min
Sep 25, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	28 min
Sep 25, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	40 min
Sep 25, 2:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	51 min
Sep 25, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	15 min
Sep 25, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	52 min
Sep 25, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	49 min
Sep 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	62 min
Sep 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	45 min
Sep 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Sep 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	28 min
Sep 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	33 min
Sep 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	60 min
Sep 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	25 min
Sep 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	6 min
Sep 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	15 min
Sep 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	55 min
Sep 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	20 min
Sep 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	15 min
Sep 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	65 min
Sep 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	10 min
Sep 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	23 min
Sep 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	28 min
Sep 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	31 min
Sep 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	47 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.